Only one point of view is unbiased
Apparently, Moveon.org is trying to shut down Fox News because "MoveOn.org is campaigning against FOX because it says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view, said Adam Green, the organization's spokesman."
read the full story here.
Hello? What news network is not biased? Should CNN, NBC etc shut down because they say they are fair, yet are biased in a liberal direction? Mr. Green is apparently under the assumption that a conservative viewpoint trying to be fair is biased and a liberal one is unbiased (because it is true of course).
This is hypocrisy at its worst. Of course Fox News is biased (and CNN and NBC and CBS and the Washington Post and on and on). Do you know why? Because people are biased. If you ever find a person without a viewpoint, a person who is completely and perfectly fair, you have found a dead person. All living humans have biases. It is impossible not to have a bias. Some are better than others at trying to be fair, but we all have the lens of a worldview through which we analyze the data that comes into our world.
Perhaps Mr. Green is honest in that he is too un-selfanalytical enough to realize that he himself is biased and too self-absorbed to realize all the people around him are - or perhaps he has an agenda to get rid of one of the only news outlets that has a conservative viewpoint so that only those news outlets that plug his liberal bias into their reporting can inform the public (thereby becoming propaganda machines because there is no counterweight).
Mr. Green, you have two choices: Are you stupid or fascist?
Also, as a side note, does anyone else find it humorous and more than a little silly that an article on Fox News reports "Representatives for FOX News Channel did not immediately return calls for comment." ? I mean, I know it was the Associated Press that did the article, and not Fox News, but still. It jiggles my funny bone.
read the full story here.
Hello? What news network is not biased? Should CNN, NBC etc shut down because they say they are fair, yet are biased in a liberal direction? Mr. Green is apparently under the assumption that a conservative viewpoint trying to be fair is biased and a liberal one is unbiased (because it is true of course).
This is hypocrisy at its worst. Of course Fox News is biased (and CNN and NBC and CBS and the Washington Post and on and on). Do you know why? Because people are biased. If you ever find a person without a viewpoint, a person who is completely and perfectly fair, you have found a dead person. All living humans have biases. It is impossible not to have a bias. Some are better than others at trying to be fair, but we all have the lens of a worldview through which we analyze the data that comes into our world.
Perhaps Mr. Green is honest in that he is too un-selfanalytical enough to realize that he himself is biased and too self-absorbed to realize all the people around him are - or perhaps he has an agenda to get rid of one of the only news outlets that has a conservative viewpoint so that only those news outlets that plug his liberal bias into their reporting can inform the public (thereby becoming propaganda machines because there is no counterweight).
Mr. Green, you have two choices: Are you stupid or fascist?
Also, as a side note, does anyone else find it humorous and more than a little silly that an article on Fox News reports "Representatives for FOX News Channel did not immediately return calls for comment." ? I mean, I know it was the Associated Press that did the article, and not Fox News, but still. It jiggles my funny bone.
posted by Xana Ender @ 11:52 AM
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