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Written By : Melissa Clouthier

I’m waiting for the public announcement by CNN saying that they want to clarify their editorial perspective and that they’re biased to the left. Wouldn’t that be freeing for everyone? Stop the pretending to be objective and just clearly state a bias. It’s not like they’re even attempting to report unfavorable Obama news.

Imagine biased press conferences. On the one side, the conservative press people. On the other side, the liberal. The President could go back and forth between the sides and people could see the difference between the questions. They could decide who to listen to. They could decide who is fair.

They would also see 80% of the press line up on one side which is why the press has numbers like what Don Surber reports: Only 19% of people believe the press is fair.

So, they’re already considered biased. Why not make the covert overt and be done with it?

Bill_Dalasio

Dr. Clouthier,

I've actually made this point for some time. The entire notion of an objective press is really only a little more than a century old. It was a creation of the yellow journalists to market their product against the papers produced by political parties (many of our nation's papers predate this as can be seen from their names: "The Democrat", "The Plain Dealer", etc.). The bias itself doesn't bother me nearly so much as the pretense of objectivity.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Well, the reason they don't is because they're more effective at manipulating the public if at least some people think they are objective and most people think that they are usually objective or tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.

If they gave that up, it certainly would be better for everyone and it would, I think, give the press a shot in the arm by generating more competition like many European papers have: we back these guys, they back those guys, and you can tell the difference.
rmiller

I agree.

We know that CNN is biased. As is Fox News.

It's time to stop the pretense that news sources have no POV.
smelvertising

It's time to stop the pretense that news sources have no POV.

But, knowing you (and liberals in general), not the time to stop the pretense that only Fox News' POV is something to be horrified of.

Or you wouldn't have mentioned one of the hundreds of thousands of left-bias news souraces, against the only news network that has the most millimetric of right leanings. (Mostly seen in their ghastly insistence of sporadically letting non-liberals actually tell their views without open scorn and ridicule – hide your children!)
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

We know that CNN is biased. As is Fox News.

Okay, how do we know Fox News is biased? Explain it to me.
Bill_Dalasio

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-09-14 15:01:08

To be fair, the same studies that show the network news shows, CNN, the Times, etc. are biased to the left indicate that Fox is (less) biased to the right. I'd argue that Fox differs only in that it is a little more open and up front with its bias The "Fair and Balanced" slogan is largely aimed at differentiating Fox from its left-biased competitors to a largely center-right audience.
aharris

Fox doesn't claim to be unbiased. They claim to be fair and balanced. There is a difference. Most people who cite Fox as blatantly to the right point only at the prime time pundits. They are mainly right leaning although I'd argue that O'Reilly is far more moderate than anything else.