Do You Think the Commercial Media Is Corrupt? Unfair? Biased?

[MineralMan]

11. Thanks. MSNBC is OK, but doesn't reach enough of an audience.

Besides, we have people who constantly grouse about MSNBC, too, for allowing some more conservative voices to participate in its pundit discussion programming. You can't simply ignore the other side and call yourself unbiased.

But, only a limited number of people watch MSNBC, really, especially compared to the broadcast network news programming. There is a lot of scorn for those broadcast networks, but they have a hugely larger audience than any cable network, especially when you combine them into a single news audience.

Fox News Network isn't actually news at all. It's all biased programming. It has its audience, that eats up everything it sees there. That audience will never watch an unbiased news outlet. It always seeks confirmation of its own opinion. Really, we all do that to some degree or another.

So, we have MSNBC to watch, but it rarely actually does any straight news reporting. For that, we have only the broadcast news on the three alphabet networks. I exclude Fox, although its local affiliate stations don't do too badly on local news coverage. Still, many of us take great price in never watching network news. Why that is, I don't know.

We also have newspapers, many of which generally report the news fairly well. If you ignore the opinion and editorial pages, you can find out what's going on, both locally and nationally. Good newspapers even try to present both sides even on their opinion pages.

A lot of people confuse opinion with news. That has gotten worse because of the 24/7 news cycle on cable networks. Most of what MSNBC and Fox News Network present is opinion, rather than news. The two are very much unlike each other, but both are primarily sources of opinion, not news.

We see a lot of news stories on DU, but we also see even more opinion pieces posted here. Politico is not news. The Hill is not news. almost everything posted here from many sources is opinion, slanted to the left to some degree or another.

Raw news is getting harder and harder to find. That's what interests me. I'm perfectly capable of coming up with my own opinion about that news. I don't need any help there.