News Media May Follow Fox From Objectivity To Partiality

The Hartford Courant ^ | August 5, 2003 | By KEVIN CANFIELD, Courant Staff Writer

[raybbr]

The nation's most powerful media organizations share one thing: They're all objective - or at least they say they are. Though everyone who gathers and reports news has his or her personal beliefs and biases, the biggest newspapers and the network news outfits all try to play to the middle. After all, that's where you'll find most readers and viewers.

[raybbr]

I think Olberman is a joke. I hated him on ESPN and still can't stand his constant wisecracking.

[dead]

the goal of the mainstream media is, for the most part, to be objective.

My ass.

[Libertina]

paragraphs?

[thoughtomator]

Paragraphs or no, this is still a load of baloney. 'Eventually', my rump.

[Terpfen]

Am I the only person left who actually thinks and believes that FNC is truly balanced in its reporting?

[UbIwerks]

I read the garbage from the hyperlink (there are paragraphs there.

Liberal bias = objectivity for the very liberal Hartford Courant.

[randog]

Though many on the right argue that ostensibly objective news organizations such as The New York Times and CBS News are actually quite biased, the goal of the mainstream media is, for the most part, to be objective.

Is this guy for real?

[cody32127]

The left is MELTING DOWN!!! They see a news channel that allows all sides, as a threat????

[Nick Danger]

the mainstream media, prodded by decidedly partisan news organizations like Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and New York Post Citing what he contends is the liberal bias of the leading news organizations in America and England, Wall Street Journal columnist Robert L. Bartley...

[Brasil]

Kevin Canfield needs to read BIAS and SLANDER. FNC is a great deal more objective than the New York Times.

[Rummyfan]

Used to enjoy Olberman back in the day, but when it came out that he was stalking one of the Los Angeles WNBA players I wrote him off. That and the fact that over the years he has evolved into an arrogant insufferable pri**!

[BOBWADE]

You forgot the "barf alert"

[faithincowboys]

They may become partial? Isn't that a laugh. They are so partisan-- it boggles the mind how anyone could think (or pretend to think) different.

[Libertina]

But perhaps news outfits are beginning to report with more of a point of view
This is the statement that frosts me...as if the alphabet channels were unbiased and nuetral and are "only" following in FOX's footsteps... If their lips are moving, lib are lying!

[eddie willers]

"The question isn't: Are you personally more sympathetic to one side than the other. It's whether or not you can be skeptical about `your' side and fair about the `other,'" says Olbermann.

Olbermann may be a jerk....
But he's absolutely dead on here.

And I believe that describes Fox News.

[cody32127]

Am I the only person left who actually thinks and believes that FNC is truly balanced in its reporting?

NO YOU ARE NOT!! They present BOTH sides at all times and the liberals loose,.. ALLOT! THATS there problem,.. (LIBERALS)against SMART conservitives head to head with liberals---THATS IT,ITS NO DEEPER THAN THAT.

[Scenic Sounds]

I think it might be better if none of the news media claimed that they were being objective. What difference does it make, anyway?

[Libertina]

You are right about that. Garbage hehehe

[Reagan Man]

Writing in the September issue of The Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows argues that the mainstream media, prodded by decidedly partisan news organizations like Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and New York Post, will eventually exhibit clear political leanings and ideological positions.

Hogwash. The mainstream media is 85% liberal and already exhibits "clear political leanings and ideological positions" that favors Democrat's. Fox`s rightwing leanings are well documented, but their a lone voice in a liberal chorus.