I have seen so many posts on Tumblr from people whipped up in righteous anger because they perceive that one news network or another is giving unfair positive or negative converage to their particular political party or pet cause. The most recent example being the “over coverage” of the Tea Party protests by Fox News yesterday.
News flash everyone:
Fox News is a conservative news network. Fox’s primary audience is mid-to-right leaning America. They know this. Their advertisers know this. As such, Fox will cover stories that appeal to their viewership. This is not wrong, this is America, this is free speech, this is freedom of the press.
In the same vein - CNN and MSNBC are liberal news networks. This is also fine. I know that because of the general left-ward leaning of most Tumblr users, Fox News gets the most heat around here. But recognize that other networks are biased too.
So what’s the bottom line? Watch whatever news network you feel delivers the coverage best suited to you. If any particular network’s programming does not suite your taste, just watch a different network. They’ll all break any major story - you won’t miss anything earth shattering, I promise.
I agree with watch what you want to watch, & they certain stations lean a certain way but I see Fox Twist things that I don’t see the other stations do. I understand news networks having favoring news & covering stories for things the represent. That will happen.
But Fox I see Twist:
Just yesterday Fox news stated outward that they are not sponsoring the Tea Parties, just covering the news. Yet when they show different locations of tea parties they used the headline: FNC Tea Parties.
Then…
Rewind to Tuesday morning: a Homeland Security report covering potential threats from “right wing extremist” groups, including militias, white supremacists and neo-Nazis, was obtained by talk show host Roger Hedgecock. And, predictably, the gang who can’t seem to decipher basic high school level social studies concepts, kneejerked into one of their paranoid tantrums — insisting that the report was entirely about them.
Almost right away, the far-right blogs and FOX News Channel were set ablaze with reports that the Obama administration was targeting conservatives with a massive surveillance operation. But here’s the thing: the DHS report wasn’t about conservatives. The word “conservatives” doesn’t appear anywhere in the report. It was all about radical domestic terrorist groups who happen to subscribe to outlandish ideologies well beyond the mainstream of political discourse. Notwithstanding this very clear distinction, Malkin and the broader wingnutosphere lost their collective shpadoinkle and insisted the DHS was targeting the mainstream tea baggers.
Rest of article here: http://bit.ly/11F0Tn
This sort of thing I see more often from Fox then any other network. Maybe I am wrong & MSNBC & CNN do this as well but I don’t see it in such obvious manners of some of the examples I listed.
I think that’s people point. Plus never saw CNN or MSNBC news reporter call someone’s wife his “babies momma” either.
