Elinda wrote:
gbaji wrote:
We can debate how much this bias influences public opinion at large, but it's pretty ostrich like to deny that it exists.
Media of all flavors is there for one's consumption. If no one bites it goes away.
That's not actually true. The major networks are all going to provide news services. I believe they're actually required to for their broadcast licenses. What happens when ratings drop for the news programs (ie: people don't believe the garbage they're shoveling) is that they become
more biased, not less. Once the news is just a loss and a cost of selling the other programming to a mass market, those running the network have no reason not to just use it to help promote their own pet political positions.
It's only when news actually competes and attempts to make a profit on their ratings that it becomes more likely to reflect the positions and views of their audience. And, not surprisingly at all, the news channel that does this to the greatest degree is Fox (I should say it's the most successful in terms of getting viewers to choose to watch their programming rather than just not turning the channel when the nightly news comes on).
Jophiel wrote:
Smasharoo wrote:
Conservative group finds media is too liberal. News at eleven.
http://www.mrc.org/static/about-us
Nice looking office though. Who knew that crying about the media was so profitable?
And once again we see a lack of distinction between the list of studies, polls, and data, and the site that merely accumulated the list. Yes. It's not surprising at all that a conservative group would be the ones to gather together a list of various sources on media bias. But that fact does not invalidate the data they collected.
Edited, Dec 9th 2014 3:25pm by gbaji