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Originally Posted by madm1k3
I never said that it was just fox news. But if you think Fox News wasn't spewing propaganda at the time to support an invasion then you and I live in two different realities.
To act as if Fox or MSNBC are about independent journalism and not a soap box for the political parties is not accepting reality.
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I think that both channels DO some good news reporting on their news shows as I said earlier.
But their big ratings grabbers (at least for Fox because MSNBC is in the toilet with ratings) are their OPINION shows.
Fox chooses to suck up to the religious right with their choice of hosts for their opinion shows.
But they have the better ratings because at least they bring on liberals to argue the points with the hosts. That makes great television (if you're into politics).
MSNBC on the other hand just have liberal hosts with liberal "guests" and their is no debate. So it's boring (who wants to watch a bunch of people smirking and agreeing with each other?)
That's all I'm saying.
As far as the Iraq war goes...hell yes Fox was in total agreement with the Iraq war, just like every other news organization was.
We were all bamboozled.
The news media should NEVER just go along with the govt.
Never.
Their job as a free press is to investigate and question the govt. every step of the way.
The fact is...they haven't done their jobs since 9-11
Yeah, the liberal news organizations all are critical and questioning Bush...NOW. You know 5 years after he's gone. And in the meantime they aren't much interested in what the Obama administration is doing.
I suppose they will wonder about it 5 years after Obama is gone too.
It's pathetic.
FNC, CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NBC, all should be ashamed.
And no, I'm not talking about their opinion shows like Maddow, OReilly, Schulz, Sharpton, Hannity, etc.
We all know that they are biased and trying for ratings.
I'm talking about when they do their "real" news shows and they don't do any investigative journalism.