Which Network Is Most Biased?

ABC
2% (91 votes)
CBS
6% (351 votes)
CNN
10% (562 votes)
FNC
4% (223 votes)
MSNBC
69% (3876 votes)
NBC
10% (542 votes)
Total votes: 5645

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Well, that was easy. Kind

Well, that was easy.

Kind of like the $200 question on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

Yep. If you picked anything

Yep. If you picked anything other than MSNBC, you have blinders on (not that the others don't have biases, mind you).

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

Fox is the worst

I have to read and watch other news sources to find the truth after watching FNS, which is a good thing.  I do it for all news sources but fox news is the worst for half truths and distorted views with the stink of racism.  I do understand why it is the #1 news source for most of uneducated, passport lacking white Americans. The Americans we meet here in England are different from the Americans we meet in America.

 

 

"The Americans we meet here

"The Americans we meet here in England are different from the Americans we meet in America."

You obviously have not met Jack yet!

45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm

I'm sure that for an

I'm sure that for an ignorant, condescending person like yourself, CNN and MSNBC are minimally acceptable.  From the tone of your tiresome cliche of a post, I'd imagine you're more of a fan of that worthless, taxpayer-funded, terrorism apologist BBC.  For sheer dishonesty, BBC is in a class with Al Jazeera.  The Beeb uses political correctness and breathtakingly vacant oversimplifications as substitutes for actual thought.  No doubt you find that poor excuse for news delivery and analysis to be the gold standard...and why should that be a surprise from someone who apparently believes that a formal education is somehow the equivalent of actual intelligence?  Feel free to marinate in your own self-satisfaction, but understand that anyone with at least half a brain would look down his nose at riff-raff like yourself.  I know I do.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

gab629 - link or slink

fox news is the worst for half truths and distorted views with the stink of racism

Do you have some actual examples you can link to, to back these accusations up?

gab629, I think I speak for most everyone here when I say...

BITE ME!

If it were not for the United States of America, your above post would have read something like this:

Ich muss andere Nachrichtenquellen lesen und aufpassen, um die Wahrheit
zu finden, nachdem ich FNS aufgepaßt habe, die eine gute Sache ist. Ich
tue sie für alle Nachrichtenquellen, aber Fuchsnachrichten sind für
halbe Wahrheiten und verzerrte Ansichten mit dem Gestank von Rassismus
das schlechteste. Ich verstehe, warum es die Quelle der Nachrichten #1
für die meisten von ungebildetem ist, der Paß, der weiße Amerikaner
ermangelt. Die Amerikaner, die wir hier in England uns treffen, sind zu
den Amerikanern unterschiedlich wir in Amerika uns treffen.

Idiot.

BTW, how is your Arabic coming?

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

The Americans you meet abroad...

gab629,

...have a better world view, can afford to go abroad, have a passport, and appreciate other cultures and people.

FYI-The best way to get banned from posting is to call this site racist or anything else for that matter. If you want to argue or debate with some of these people about their narrow world view, stay on topic and don't get distracted by the conservative trolls. They hate to be ignored and will continue attacking you without any substantive knowledge, facts or inputs. So, welcome, bask in their hatred, and use plenty of suntan lotion. If they didn't have us, they would just feed upon themselves in a cannibalistic way. Good luck!

Syrius

"...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by
renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the
devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott

 

Syrius discussion

Syrius discussion and debate is welcomed armed with facts and a reasoned cogent arguments.  But when thee are none and it is just "I feel" in authoritarian definitive language then we are going to call you out at high noon and see what kind of gunslinger you really are. 

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

I'm not a gunslinger nor a hater nor leon...

Dna teh Mna tow,

Beyond military adn government service, what percentage of Americans have passports? What percentage of theso Americans use tehir passports each year? With teh Euro being so high adn travel being so expensive, hsa travelling abroad increased ro decreasde? How many Americans speak more thna two languages compared to tehir counterpatrs in Eorupe?

Syruis

"...teh dire consequences ot society when people begin ot believe that by
renaming someone ot erase tehir humanity opens teh door to teh
devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott

 

Wow! Another arrogant, nose

Wow! Another arrogant, nose in the air, egotistical, self absorbed, elitist liberal. Where do these guys come from? And this one assumes that we, as conservitives, do not, have not or will not ever travel to such exocitic localities as "England" or "Germany" or any other destination in Europe. Sooooo enlightened....like I have never visited places like that...and others. Like SE Asia and Africa and Australia..

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Excluding military and government service...

bass,

You've traveled the globe on your dime or on mine? For fun & pleasure or for business? Visiting Disneyworld & Epcot Center doesn't count...

Thank you for classifying me as elitist, I appreciate the compliment. 

Syrius

"...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by
renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the
devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott

 

you meant to say "liberal biased"...

The assumption of "biased" as only meaning "liberal" shows an ignorance of the word and its definition. Clearly, FNC slants to the right. If your poll was accurate it would have shown a more balanced bias across the media spectrum and news outlets. Why not just ask "Which news outlet is the most liberal biased?"

syrius

"...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by
renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the
devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott

 

Your statement "biased" as

Your statement "biased" as only meaning "liberal" shows an ignorance of the word" seems to clearly show you have the bias down pat.  Yes all news shows are biased in part.  Your bent keeps you from seeing the real bias and teh damage it does to the country.  As Forset Gump says biased is as biased does.

I said CNN was teh mosty biased but I dont follow the other nets too much as they make my head explode.  FNC has teh least bias in its hard news and its news analysis.  News analysis is really hard for one ot detect bias if you lean to the bias it offwers, such as Hanity and Colmbs.

H and C leans mostly right because Hannity is better than the milktoast Colmbs.  The funny thing is most who say FNC is extreme right never watch teh programs.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

The assumption of "biased"

The assumption of "biased" as only meaning "liberal" shows an ignorance of the word and its definition.

What other television networks would you have added then?

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

If your poll was accurate

If your poll was accurate it would have shown a more balanced bias across the media spectrum and news outlets.

Well, obviously talk radio is biased, but they don't pretend that they're not. This poll is about television networks that pretend that they're not biased at all (though MSNBC wants it both ways now).

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

I'm not sure I understand

I'm not sure I understand your concern with your poll, since Fox News Channel is one of the options listed there, and you were free to choose it as the most flagrantly biased of the news channels, if you so choose.

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

The assumption of "biased"

The assumption of "biased" as only meaning "liberal" shows an ignorance of the word and its definition.

Do you know what website you are on? It's all about context here, o enlightened one.

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

I picked CNN only because ....

I have loathed them since the 2000 election. I saw their bias clearly during the 2000 election and hated them for that. I let my personal bias make a choice. But yes MSNBC is just an extention of DNC.

But who can ever forget

But who can ever forget Katie crying when it was announced Gore was loosing in Florida?  I agree that CNN has crossed a line with their hiring practices and selection of panelists.  What happened to the ban on ex-Clintonites as pundits?  I think it lasted almosted a week. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

On the old networks, CBS,

On the old networks, CBS, NBC, they at least try to be subtle. Olbermann and Matthews do nothing of the sort.

Pick the...

...world's tallest midget.

I voted for the Creative News Network. I don't allow the sewer known as cable television into my home, so I only catch the broadcast news networks when I travel for work.

I watch the national news on ABC, CBS, and NBC to see how they're going to spin a story. It's almost comical because they often seem like parodies of themselves. I sometimes stumble into a story on Good Morning America or Today or whatever CBS calls their morning pabulum, and I wonder if if I've turned to a Saturday Night Live skit mocking the medium.

Doesn't it worry you that the evening news anchors come from those morning shows?

Technical Problems???

Hey???

I kept trying to vote like Chicago Democrats.....early and often.  Tried to click on all of 'em at the same time:  ABC, CBS, CNN MSNBC AND NBC, but it wouldn't let me. 

There's GOT to be a technical glitch goin' on somewhere.  Could we please get this fixed, so everyone can vote PROPERLY.  (ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC are ALL the, "Most biased networks."

neighb

I honestly cannot answer this poll

I stopped watching all the broadcast and cable news channels except fox a long time ago.  I get 95% of my news online so I don't have first hand knowledge of these networks' bias.

 If I were to pick CNN or MSNBC I would be no different than those who criticize FNC without ever watching it.  A pet peeve of mine is when someone says they hate FNC or Bill O'Rielly and when asked if they ever have watched them they say NO!!!

 

There are 10 types of people.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I should have voted for

I should have voted for MSNBC. Instead I out down NBC, but then I blame NBC for MSNBC.

Normative vs. Positive

FNC is right down the middle in news and slightly right of center in opinion, but since all the others are left of center to off-the-board fascist it appears to the leftists that FNC is biased. It all depends on your point-of-view. Like looking at the moon and saying, "It's only the size of a quarter."

If you can't get beyond your own biases, then you can't analyze those of others. That's why conservatives live in the objective evidence-based world. Truth is the enemy of the alternate reality crowd. Unfortunately, they own the Media, schools, and government, and can indoctrinate the country in their "beliefs" (i.e. lies), and keep them ignorant and dependent so as not to be able to uncover the truth. That's why we've only had 1 conservative president, and 2-4 years of a conservative congress in the last century; and not coincidentally, those were the pinnacle of American government and the economy.

I voted "MSNBC". But I

I voted "MSNBC".

But I think CNN's bias is the most destructive.

 

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"It could be the answer to our age-old, philosophical question, 'Why are we here?' PLASTIC!"

Schn... I voted msnbc

Schn...

I voted msnbc right off, but I also wanted to click NBC because they are responsible for msnbc to me, also my hesitation on not picking CNN was for the same reasons you stated.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson

I don't count pmsnbc as a

I don't count pmsnbc as a network.

Dahhh!

Dahhh!

I'm not voting because I

I'm not voting because I don't watch television news.

Of course, that means I don't get to see the percentages of everyone else's votes...

Lee T.

"Democrats, there is one reason Obama is your party's nominee, and it's not because he's black -- it's because he's not Hillary Clinton." -- Rush Limbaugh, 6/2/08

 

As I see it, there is

As I see it, there is little, if any, difference in the level of bias exhibited by MSNBC and CNN.  The distinction is all in the presentation.  Where CNN delivers a much more "buttoned-up" product with slick-suited insiders and less overt host hyperbole, the network slides its breathtaking bias in rather subtly...through "authoritative" field journalists like Michael Ware and Christianne Amanpour (when Ware isn't too busy "getting better acquainted with" other networks' journalists, that is), a bevy of foreign correspondents to saturate audiences with "what the rest of the world thinks", and skillfully dishonest screen crawls.  MSNBC tarts up its bias by employing self-important, unintentionally funny caricatures to deliver finger-wagging lectures to an administration that has better things to do than watch.  MSNBC is the news equivalent of public access, while CNN is inherently more dangerous, as its presentation creates undeserved credibility. 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

I Only Find 1 Good Show on MSNBC

I hate all of the networks, even FOX News.  I do watch FOX the most, then sometimes I will watch CNN and MSNBC.  There is only 1 good show on MSNBC, "Morning Joe," which is least liberal.

I chose NBC, because they promote environmentalism.

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msnbc's Contessa Brewer has

msnbc's Contessa Brewer has been a busy little leftist bee today attempting to spin Clark's BS today as not meant as a criticism at all towards McCain...from what I have so far anyway...

...these people have their marching orders, they never quit...

AB Stoddard was the only to say he was wrong to say what he did yesterday.

McCain really told them off today let me tell ya'.../sarc off.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson

I think MSNBC has gone so

I think MSNBC has gone so far to the left and in the hole for Obama, they have, at last, transcended bias, to the point they are in the same position as say, Obama campaign literature - which we really can't say is biased - at least, not in the normal sense. MSNBC is functioning today as MSDNC. As such, are they biased?

Even CNN is less biased than

Even CNN is less biased than MSNBC...unless Amanapour is on. Then it reverts back to the Communist News Network once again. Other than that, CNN is just a tad better than they used to be.

What about PBS? think it

What about PBS? think it should be on the list??

Or is it not considered a network?

MSNBC

I had to vote them although just about all the news are biased in one way or the other. I dont think there is one out there that will tell you the WHOLE truth about anything, just what they want you to read or hear. Do they tell any of the good we have done in Irac or anywhere else for that matter?

Guns and violence are not necessarily the answer but they are one solution to the problem""" DILLIGAF

Now ask the question,

Now ask the question, "Which net is more fair?"

 

Start each day with a smile, then get it over with. - W.C. Fields

ALL

The network that I see every day......ALL (Always Lying Liberals) was not listed, just to give you a heads up ;)