Finally, MSNBC getting called out by the MSM

[PeppyGPhiB]

FOX News is incredibly slanted, too, just in the other direction. So why is it an issue?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

I don't care that MSNBC is left leaning, I'm just tired the network being treated as an unbiased source.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

FOX News is incredibly slanted, too, just in the other direction. So why is it an issue?

I guess my question is who treats MSNBC as unbiased? No one I know of. I mean, MSNBC and Fox will both say they're not slanted, but does anybody buy actually that from either of them?

[PeppyGPhiB]

In reality, EVERY news source is biased, whether it's TV, radio or print.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

In reality, EVERY news source is biased, whether it's TV, radio or print.

And once upon a time, news sources didn't mind at all admitting their biases. Every now and then, I hear newspaper editors suggesting that the press go back to the days of acknowledging the bias rather than claiming an unattainable objectivity.

[shinerbock]

Fox News is arguably as biased, but EVERYONE treats them as such.

This is the first MSM article I've seen that takes shots at MSNBC. This occurs all the time toward Fox News. I mean, I realize NBC and ABC and CNN are not going to hammer away at a network which shares their political slant, but up to now there has been absolutely no recognition of MSNBC as an EXTREMELY slanted network except on conservative blogs. You certainly can't say the same thing about Fox News.

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And once upon a time, news sources didn't mind at all admitting their biases. Every now and then, I hear newspaper editors suggesting that the press go back to the days of acknowledging the bias rather than claiming an unattainable objectivity.

The only thing you can do is seek out the less biased sources, and look at a variety of them. I mean, I admit that Fox News and the WSJ editorial page are both conservatively slanted. I think this is sometimes overstated because sometimes there is simply an absence of liberalism instead of overt conservatism, but that is a perspective thing. However, I think there is sometimes a double standard.

For example, I walked into a law school classroom and brought up an article from the WSJ. I was roundly criticized by my professor, who then proceeds to discuss something from the NYT. This happens a lot. Liberals will hold up the NYT or CNN or or the LA Times as being completely above partisan politics, but then rebuke anything found on Fox News. I'm sure there are conservatives who do similar things, but I simply don't see it (and I get into these discussions a lot). In fact, most conservatives I know simply won't bring up Fox News as a source, because they recognize it will be questioned by liberal opponents.