Originally Posted By: Nick R
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Fox news is as "fair and balanced" as MSNBC is.
But unlike MSNBC, Fox has
taken their right to lie to court, and won.
If I'm not mistaken, this is why they're not allowed in Canada as they'd be mis-representing themselves as "news".
It's too bad, though, that they've become the conservative's lone voice in mainstream media. By turning the "CRAZY" and "STUPID" knobs up to "11" they've tainted people's perceptions toward conservatives world-wide as such. It's even worse that liberals, conservatives and everyone in between seem to need "voices" in what was supposed to be neutral media. To make matters even worse, as media becomes more "democratic" (in the sense that pretty much anyone can grab their smartphones and become "journalists" posting their stories all over the web) the left-leaning slant becomes both more
obvious palpable and less ashamed of itself.
The key might be to take in information about the things that interest you from many disparate sources; fully aware and accepting of their biases, and create an amalgam from them and from that base your opinion... Now that I read that back it almost seems like "thinking"!
