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What is the least biased news outlet?

What is the least biased news outlet?

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We all know FOX News leans to the right and NBC/MSNBC leans to the left. Any argument against this would definitely be a losing one. So my question is, which of the major US TV media outlets do you consider to be the least biased?
 
Your question refers to "news outlet", not "opinion programming on a cable channel", so the news broadcasts at FNC are certainly the most fair and balanced. Its been their stated goal from the outset, and they've done an admirable job, in accordance with independent studies to become the "most trusted" news source.

Sixth Poll in a Year Finds Public Recognizes Liberal Tilt to News Media | NewsBusters.org
 
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Since I know Fox leans to the right (I prefer Fox), I'll take a blind guess and say CNN, from what I've read it's pretty unbiased.

But of course, the most unbiased source of information is to go just get it yourself, somewhat hard if you're trying to chase news in Gaza or in Iran.
 

:lol: the Communist News Network?


Fox was launched in opposition to it.
 

Word.

:applaud
 
I find most news outlets to be pretty fair in their coverage. Its the op-ed shows they run at night that show their slant.
 
Just to be clear, most trusted =/= least biased.

Most trusted is an opinion of the coverage more than anything else. If there is only one right leaning station and twelve left leaning stations, and we figure that the country is split about 50/50 in their leaning, it means that a higher percentage of people will be drawn towards the right leaning station simply due to a lack of competition. This is the brilliance of FoxNews as a business venture. It tapped into a population of people who are the most brand-loyal (Men 25+ years old have been found to be the most brand loyal with regards to almost everything. When they find something they like, they stick with it), and were unrepresented by the market.

I think FoxNews is perhaps the most brilliantly marketted News outlet, and that is part of the reason they are "most trusted". But I would not call them the "least biased". Quite frankly, I don't think any "news" outlet is least biased. They all have their biases. Some more subtle than others, but the biases exist.
 

 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
:lol: the Communist News Network?


Fox was launched in opposition to it.
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They acted like the Clinton News Network until the last Demo primary season. That's when they changed to the Obama News Network (ONN).
 
WI Crippler said:
I find most news outlets to be pretty fair in their coverage.
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here are some actual statements made by actual "reporters" made during "news coverage" on Fox "News" Channel.

"Have we ever seen a President be so public about his spirituality?"
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"And perhaps the most forceful or aggressive response came from the Republican National committee which called Edwards 'a disingenuous, unaccomplished liberal'"
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"The chair of the Republican National Committee says this shows Rove was not the leaker, but rather the recipient of information."
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Why, or how, is it news to parrot what people say about the news? I have to wonder why anyone would want news to be "balanced." Can't it just be accurate?

the least biased news outlets weren't listed as poll choices.

NPR, PBS, & BBC, et al.
 
P/N said:
We all know FOX News leans to the right and NBC/MSNBC leans to the left. Any argument against this would definitely be a losing one. So my question is, which of the major US TV media outlets do you consider to be the least biased?
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This is how I see it:

FOX is outrageously wrong in saying that some of its shows are fair and unbiased and so is MSNBC. MSNBC basically bashes FOX and FOX basically bashes everything that isn't FOX.

Don't get me wrong though, both of these networks have some very good comedy shows like The O'Reilly Factor and Countdown With Keith Olbermann.

As far as the MOST unbiased, I would say CNN, some of their top reporters are true to the model of the "true reporter." For example, Anderson Cooper always shares his analysis or his opinion on a matter without being partisan, unlike O'Reilly or Olbermann. CNN does have some bias here and there (like Campbell Brown's show), but overall its much better than MSNBC or FOX.

Honestly I don't watch CBS, and I don't know much about it, so I won't say anything.
 
Southern Man said:
Sixth Poll in a Year Finds Public Recognizes Liberal Tilt to News Media | NewsBusters.org
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Amusing. The fundamental problem with that poll is that it assumes that the American public has any real understanding of what is "Conservative" and what is "Liberal."

Republican leaning views are hardly conservative yet most morons in America think that the GOP is still Conservative when they are in fact some of the biggest liberals in US history. The outgoing President and his term with all Republican government brought Socialism, Nationalization, Anti-free trade policies (steel anyone?), and a whole host of strongly anti-conservative measures. Furthermore, the uber-fake social conservatism is pretty rampant.
Are they less biased, or is the polling sample just ignorant as to what measures they are judging the stations on?
 
The art of reporting the news has gotten far too meshed up in editorializing. Reporters use to report the facts. They might have commonly looked for an angle from which to report and approach the facts whereas now they look for the slant from which to spin. It's fairly outrageous. Investigative journalism has pretty much fallen by the wayside in favor of allowing folks to just come on tv and bitch back and forth sans a truth detector or any form of accountability for what they say.
 
P/N said:
We all know FOX News leans to the right and NBC/MSNBC leans to the left. Any argument against this would definitely be a losing one. So my question is, which of the major US TV media outlets do you consider to be the least biased?
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Its either CBS or ABC.. Fox and MSNBC is wildly leaning and biased, while CNN is just skewed and brainwashing like. CBS I choose for the sake of the poll, while I could just as well have chosen ABC.

At least those two are clearly definetely least biased of the 5.
 
I can't choose.

There's not one that is ran completely by unbiased robotts...oh wait nevermind there's MSNBC.
Gotcha.
 
Arch Enemy said:
I can't choose.

There's not one that is ran completely by unbiased robotts...oh wait nevermind there's MSNBC.
Gotcha.
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Olbermann is the O'Reilly of the left.. Both are dumb, but in 10% of their cases have SOME valid points.
 
C-Span? (this is the only channel I actually watch that has political stuff that's not funny.)
 
Tucker Case said:
C-Span? (this is the only channel I actually watch that has political stuff that's not funny.)
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That channel is unfortunately not available in Europe. We have something similar in Norway, parliament radio, and some live coverage from parliament on TV.. But far too little of it, those things is the politics I prefer to watch, politicians who debate with each other in an orderly fashion, proper etiquette and no garbage.

I wish it was live 24 hours a day, such as any proper democracy should be, live coverage of all political institutions 24 hours a day.
 

What others are you referring to when you indicate "et al."?

And NPR, PBS and BBC are notoriously left slanted.

The BBC is admittedly so.

 
The BBC reports on things and places that it would never occur to anyone at Fox could possibly matter.

That's what I consider balanced.

The BBC is a worldwide news service, Fox is only barely an American news service with a lean towards purely political news and sheer bull**** moral panic crap.

If you want to know what's going on outside of a place where white people live and you don't want it framed as "how it involves 'Merkans!" you should read BBC. If you want to read inane minutiae of American political maneuvering and how not enough of todays youth are saving themselves for marriage you can read Fox.
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
BBC is British :doh

Still its less biased than all of the 5 big US channels, even though its wildly pro-west and often blindly anti-Russian.
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If you guys all think the BBC is unbiased or less biased than the choices listed in the poll then you have faulty critical thinking skills and are unreliable observers and critics of politics.

Basically you are blind and that may be what makes many of your comments suspect.

You are unable to know heads from tales. (Excuse my play on words.)
 

You lost. Give it up.

Least biased, Mr. Europhile.

Not most balanced.
 
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