Thursday, October 15, 2009
Fox News, is it really news?
I recently came across an article about Fox News and its bias. As most Americans do I follow my countries news, I realize that all news has a bias behind it, but believe that as a free journalism country I am still being told the truth. That is until I started reading Fox News. The bias behind this news corporation is absolutely absurd, as White House communications director Anita Dunn says it is "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party". Everything they broadcast is a Republican based theory and some of which is completely false. Such as take the health care debate the statements that Obama is trying to initiate "death panels" to decide whether the elderly will live or not. A statement which could not be falser, but is still broadcasted by Fox News as a fact and crime that the Obama administration is commiting. They are brainwashing Americans with the frequency of false facts that they put out into the free journalism market and are openly against our current President and his administration. As an American I have to ask, as a country where do we draw the line in allowing our journalist's to state knowingly false facts? Here is the article which I found
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Although Fox News may have a little conservative bias, it's about time! All the other networks (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) have a liberal bias. I watch Fox News and trust most of the reporters; I have not seen that much bias. However, it is hard to read or watch anything without finding a little bias; that's just human nature. Also, I don't believe that they are "brainwashing" Americans; they are just stating the news, which is based off of fact.
ReplyDeleteI think the biggest difference between Fox News and CNN/MSNBC's news hosts is the manner in which news is actually spoken.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't always the case, and I don't spend a lot of time watching Fox News so I don't know how things are generally, but whenever I see pudits like Glenn Beck speak (or hear Limbaugh), the way he talks is very loud and, more importantly, emotionally charged-- he often says things that make Americans worry about religion, children, money, even when the topic at hand has nothing to do with it. And yelling and escalating tone is actually something that is characteristic of Beck's show, it's expected.
Pundits like Maddow or Olberman tend to, but don't always, use a more level tone (but as they're opinion shows like Beck, they have a satirical/dramatic side which is also emotional). Both sides have their problems, but I think using more emotionally charged speech is particularly problematic for a "news" show.
During a discussion in my 'bio' class it was mentioned that the brain has two gateways in to our responses/thoughts: emotional and logical, and the emotional gateway (perceiving threats, needing spontaneous judgment, responding to events)has a "faster-opening door" compared to the logical gateway, for very understandable reasons (like if your life's in danger, you need to respond). As a downside to this, it can block out logical reason coming from another side, or logic at all, because you can be easier swayed by the emotional aspect of a presentation without actually giving it thought or maintaining an objective/moderate approach to things. I think that this emotional appeal is possibly where a significant of Fox's popularity comes from.
I agree with what Nick has said. they are saying what is being reported. And time is critical in news it always has been and always will be.
ReplyDelete"brainwashing" Americans cmon' AJB they are not brainwashing our country with their news.
Some of their things may be false but so that is true with many other news stations as well. We would all love if every network had 100% true factual news but that isnt how it it