gbaji wrote:
Sure. For just Sunday shows, compare "State of the Union" with "Fox News Sunday" (honestly, there's a bunch of match ups you can do). Both networks tend to do some "serious" shows examining various political issues. It's not hard to DVR them on any given Sunday, find a segment in each show on the same topic and with the same or similar format, and see exactly what I'm talking about. What you'll see is that when the Fox show has two or four people on a panel, half of them will be liberal and half conservative. When the CNN show has two or four people on a panel, most of the time all of the opinions presented by the whole panel will encapsulate only the liberal half of the equivalent panel on the Fox show.
...
I'm presenting a test anyone can do. You don't have to try to judge if one network is "more biased" (since that's subjective), but you can certainly objectively measure which network provides the viewer with a broader set of viewpoints. And when you do that, you will find that Fox news comes out on top.
...
I'm presenting a test anyone can do. You don't have to try to judge if one network is "more biased" (since that's subjective), but you can certainly objectively measure which network provides the viewer with a broader set of viewpoints. And when you do that, you will find that Fox news comes out on top.
I googled both shows and watched the first video available from each.
Here's gbaji's problem.
What he describes as "news" above: "What you'll see is that when the Fox show has two or four people on a panel, half of them will be liberal and half conservative. When the CNN show has two or four people on a panel, most of the time all of the opinions presented by the whole panel will encapsulate only the liberal half of the equivalent panel"
Is not news.
He does not know what it is.
I saw news on "State of the Union", where the host interviewed a terrorism official in government and asked factual questions, which were replied to. This is like news, although I prefer to get news in written form. The whole business is slow.
You can imagine what I saw on "Fox News Sunday". I learned that America "is a center-right country and you run into trouble governing it from the left" - Britt Hume, to which no counter was offered, in any way.
Now I've found the equivalent on FNS: the host puts forward statements which the official has to reject as untrue. In some cases repeatedly. In one case, the host puts words in the mouth of the official, which yet again the official has to correct.
It all comes back to reliability. I have NO idea if the official or the host is correct. Some of this is simple fact: was the first bomb found by the A or B?
"you can certainly objectively measure which network provides the viewer with a broader set of viewpoints"
Oh dear. I'm not sure gbaji knows what news is.
Let me be clear: I don't care if you listen to this crap. Just don't substitute it for actual news. Which I did find in both shows (took me a few videos on Fox, but you can find it). There is clearly a difference in quality as I discuss above.