There's been a lot of talk over the Obama administration's war with Fox News. Besides being a bad move on the part of the White House, making them look petty, small and bullyish, there is another down side we should be seeing soon, and have already seen the beginnings of.First off, I'm going to go right out and say what many on the right will not say, or cannot see: Fox News is biased.
Ok, you got that?
They are biased just like CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC and CNN are equally biased toward the other direction. All reporting is biased. It has to be.
There just is not enough newsprint, bandwidth, or broadcast time to report all of the news. There are not enough reporters to investigate all the stories, or possible stories, or to follow every lead.
Therefore, just the decision to report a story, or not, is a display of bias.
Now that have I got that out of the way...
The Obamians are pissed off at FNC for the stories they run. Were it not for FNC, we wouldn't know about the racists and radicals O has placed in positions of trust. Of course, one can ask the question: Do we really need to know those things?
I guess it all depends on if you think we would really need to know if Bush had a health care czar that called for the assassination of abortionists, or the *booting homosexuals? I would say so. How about you?
The Obamians are in a hard spot. They've largely gotten a free ride from the elite press, with nearly every correspondent getting in line to buff The One's helmet.
Now, he's gone and blown it. For a while, anyway.
In singling out FNC, he wasn't very smart. He's shown no evidence of a story falsely reported. No lies. No mistruths. No fake memos. He's got nothing on FNC except "They won't fall in line."
What he's done instead, through his exposition of Fox for not falling in line, is to expose the rest of his fawning water carriers for what they are.
He just might be starting something that could have unintended consequences long term, as news agencies-other-than-Fox scramble to find something to report that isn't so complimentary. And they will have to, just to show the world that they are what they claim they are: truly reliable, and credible, sources of information.
My question for them is: are they capable? or does the messiah worship run too deep?
*Booting: the tactic of repeatedly kicking somebody who has been knocked down, preferably in the head. Popularized by racist skinheads of the 80's Hardcore era, for it's use against 'queers'. The idea being you might get AIDS if you strike them with your fists, allowing their blood to pass into any broken skin of your own. 'Booting' was a safe alternative.
8 comments:
Good post, Gino. Spot on.
Faux Newz has a long, long, long, way to go to balance out the bias of CBS/NBC/ABC/NYT...
Until we see a MemoGate fiasco like CBS we can be sure of less bias.
Bias needs to be open and up front for commentary. There is no room for opinion when covering the news, just the facts.
I've said for a while that if you want to see someone whose bias will make you shiver, just look for someone who claims not to be biased.
krod: your missing the point a bit. all reporting is biased just on the basis of what reports are chosen.
whenever you see a story, just say to yourself: he's reporting this to push an agenda.
Geno, I'm not really disagreeing with you. Many times yes, but not "whenever" you see a story. I usually can spot the bias all the time, but there are certain true news stories that are above bias, at least at the start when it is truly news and not commentary.
The initial stories on the I-35 bridge collapse were simply reporting the facts of the tragedy. It took a few hours for the bias to show up. The news about the weather was quite bias free until AlGore's MMGW scam...
Bubba nailed it on those who claim not to have a bias.
The hard part is to make decisions without letting your bias make the decision for you.
Also, profit and ratings are just as much if not more of a reason over bias. If it bleeds it leads.
but why would a bridge collapse in MN be national news? nobody outside of the twin cities was affected by it.
besides bleeding is leading, which makes sense for profits.
The I-35 bridge is in Minnesota; it has national importance since it is part of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, arguably the biggest highway system in the world.
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