Where is Journalism today? The main stream media has changed from reporting on the news as a fact checker, to just another shrill voice with a dog in the hunt. Fox news is biased to the conservative view, and CNN is left of center, while MSNBC is left of anything approaching reality. News on the broadcast networks is clearly liberal. There is no voice of rational debate.
A lot of times I hear people confuse bias for lying. A journalist can be biased, and also tell the truth. The major bias in the media is what they choose to report. Fox reports news of interest to conservatives, the other media reports news of interest to liberals.
In the health care debate, the media is covering the shouting at town halls, ignoring the facts about what people are shouting. People on both sides of the debate spew almost nothing but BS, and no one in the media is covering it honestly. Sure, they point out the things the other side of the debate say that might not be true, but they don't cover the overall facts of the debate.
Instead of the old William F. Buckley debate of the facts, today's media wants shouting matches. Maybe the few people that watch TV news today prefer that, but not me. And now people watch journalists that reflect their view. What happened to the old idea that you couldn't determine the politics of a journalist?
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