Which news network do you believe is most trustworthy/reliable?

[SoCalShooter]

Personally I believe that the news stations have become bloated and have forgot how to truthfully and accurately give US the news. The talking heads come on to each network and give their opinions and I personally dont need their opinions to help me formuate mine..what I need is accurate reporting with all the facts inside and out. Talking heads and poor questioning from both Democrats, liberals, republicans on all stations are why I dont want syndicated news. I watch the daily show because atleast I know going in that all the stuff may not be accurate and its more satire than anything...I prefer that.

 

[Eleven Mike]

I would agree that NPR is more substantive than other sources, and would that they are drily academic to a fault. But I find them useless, as, being mostly leftist in orientation, they are simply unable to report accurately. It's like asking a 3-year-old to diagnose a car problem and suggest possible fixes. They don't know how the world works, or how it ought to work, so they are unable to tell me what is actually happening.

 

[No_Brakes23]

NPR. Certainly some memebers like Daniel Schorr are lefties, but the news sections just report the facts, so far as I have heard, and they also present stories neither side cares about.

I have yet to find a TV network that is "fair and balanced." The big three are utterly ensconced in their leftist ivory towers, and Fox is an utter sham of journalism, even when they aren't braying some neo-con propaghanda. It isn't that Fox is hard-core right wing, it is that they are chock full of wrong info and value judgements that are presented as news, not editorials. At least when NPR is gonna open the sluice gate on some leftist non-sense, they let you know it is an editorial. And any of you that think the FOX network is a friend of the 2nd need to remember that Bill O'Reilly is a vocal supporter of the AWB.

I also watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Repor', which at least you know is fake. The Daily Show is still a good source of info if you have any ability to detect sarcasm. Stewart tends to rattle off a few facts before he tacks on an Onion-esque ending that most folks I know have no trouble deciphering.

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

I get my news exclusively from openly biased sources. It's a matter of integrity. If they aren't honest enough to admit their own obvious bias then they can't be trusted to report the news accurately.

For me, that usually means NPR and Limbaugh and Weekly Standard. All have either tacitly or openly declared their political leanings. They're all very good at doing what they do, each in their own way.

Fox news is probably the best of the TV sources (which isn't necessarily saying much), because they're openly deliberately right of the other networks. Given the overt leftist leanings of those other networks this puts Fox on the right path, if not at the exact politica center. Fox is the only network to have correctly identified the leftist bias of the media at large, and the only network that actively seeks to not duplicate that bias. The folks Fox News aren't perfect, but at least they're trying.

 

[Hawk]

NPR - Generally perceived as hopelessly liberal by conservative commentators and hopelessly neo-con by liberals.

You must be doing something right when you're taking it in the shorts from both sides.

 

[Eleven Mike]

NPR and Limbaugh and Weekly Standard. All have either tacitly or openly declared their political leanings.

I've heard some tacit admissions on NPR, but I wondered what you were referring to specifically?

 

[Eleven Mike]

Hawk, the charge that mainstream media has a conservative slant is common among liberals. NPR has a leftist slant.

 

[Juna]

The vast, vast, vast majority of all broadcast media has a liberal bias--just to varying degrees. The ones that seem more "conservative" are only relatively so.

 

[KUJO2388]

I voted BBC. Second would be FOX.

 

[Iain]

During the recent Israel/Hezbollah business, I seem to remember the BBC coming in for stick from both sides for its alleged bias.

At the same time the Guardian ran an editorial that I suspect caused at least one or two deaths amongst their regular readers, it was entitled something like 'You don't have to be an anti-Semitic holocaust denier to think that Israel shouldn't exist, but it certainly helps.'

Everyone thinks the media is out to get them. Clearly there are some for whom FOX is a communist front, and others that regard CNN as fascist mouthpiece. This result bemuses me, I'd have expected that the 'none of the above' option would have been the clear winner. Perhaps not only do journalists not recognise their own bias, but we can't see their bias when it closely matches our own, which wouldn't be any great revelation.

 

[longeyes]

"Trust no one, little marmoset."

~Herod, I, CLAUDIUS

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

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NPR and Limbaugh and Weekly Standard. All have either tacitly or openly declared their political leanings.

I've heard some tacit admissions on NPR, but I wondered what you were referring to specifically?

Their entertainment shows tend to betray the bias of the network. Garrison Keillor has made jokes about NPR's leftism. Their call-in shows often do the same. NPR's bias is often treated as an open secret or an inside joke on the air, always referenced obliquely and indirectly. They won't come out and say it outright, but they make subtle references to about thier leftism that everyone understands, nudge nudge, wink wink.

 

[Biker]

If someone's tryin' to sell me something, I automatically question their motives.

Biker

 

[mp510]

EDIT: And Fox News isnt a friend of the 2nd Amendmant either... did you see Fox and Friends the other day where the hosts were asking "Why does anyone need a AK-47?"

Good point Crazed? Did you catch which one? I didn't notice that. I only catch about 20 mins, so.... I did notice that some of their other anchors are sportsman anti (O/U=good, S/A pistol=bad), but they have been giving the concept of allowing educators the ability to CC on the job better press than some of the others. I chose them, far from perfect, but better than the rest.

 

[PATH]

Went with FOX.

 

[Atticus]

They're all airheaded corporate infotainment fluff designed to be loud and simple for the masses.

That's a pretty good description. I get 99% of my news from mutiple web sites.
As far as radio and TV are concerned, there are some decent programs on NPR and the major networks...but the entities themselves ALWAYS have some bias. The bias may be blatant or subtle. I tend to consider what is NOT said, or who is NOT interviewed. The Iraq and N. Korea reporting is a prime example. Has the BBC or CNN reported on the source of N. Korea's reactors...or how Clinton and envoy Jimmy The Preacher Carter trusted N. Korea to be fine upstanding nuclear pardners? Don't think so. All I'ver heard, was how good of a job Clinton was doing, making new friends of the NK's. No talk at all about how they were processing fuel from 1994-1997 like there was no tomorrow. Ironically, about the same time Osama was planning 911. All Bush's fault they say. Yep...FOX is the only biased one.

The thing that really does drive me me nuts though, is when something is subtly inferred...e.g. " Today X number of people were shot at X ...at a time when the NRA is lobbying Congress to ....whatever. That is pure politics and psychological ploy.

 

[Eleven Mike]

Their entertainment shows tend to betray the bias of the network. Garrison Keillor has made jokes about NPR's leftism. Their call-in shows often do the same. NPR's bias is often treated as an open secret or an inside joke on the air, always referenced obliquely and indirectly. They won't come out and say it outright, but they make subtle references to about thier leftism that everyone understands, nudge nudge, wink wink.

Exactly what I've noticed, although Keillor and Feldman are on American Public Media, or whatever they're calling it now. To be fair, a lot of these references are actually to the bias of the audience, but I think we can put two and two together.

I heard Katie Couric acknowledge the bias of the MSM a few months back - just in passing as she interviewed a guest. Another subtle admission.

 

[Eleven Mike]

The left should be happy that people question the media - it means more people are being skeptical. They like that, right?

 

[Dr.Who]

I voted other/none.... I go to many diffent sources, TV, Radio, Web.... but not the paper.... They all are slanted in there own way....

 

[Skywarp]

I voted other

I read A few websites to try to geta total picture.
BBC, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Fox (if need be but they rub me the wrong way), Yahoo news, Al Jazeera , Haaretz, LA Times, Washington Post, Japan Times.


And I watch the Daily show, because they will take shots at both sides....not equally but Bush often makes it real easy....

 

[RocketMan]

I voted "Other" because there was no "None of the Above".

 

[crazed_ss]

Good point Crazed? Did you catch which one? I didn't notice that. I only catch about 20 mins, so.... I did notice that some of their other anchors are sportsman anti (O/U=good, S/A pistol=bad),

IIRC, it was Brian Kilmeade..

 

[johnsonrlp]

Comedy Central's Fake News Headquarters

I get all my TV news from The Colbert Report and The Daily show. At least that way I know exactly which way they're coming from. If something really big is going on I'll watch Anderson Cooper for a while. But I pick up on stuff on the WWW more than anything else.

 

[Spartacus451]

Comedy Central

And even they make up stats...

 

[Manedwolf]

There's another good thing if you have digital cable, called Reuters Raw Feed or Raw Footage, depending.

It's basically the unedited camera feeds from around the world, right from the field. No commentary, no cuts, no blathering.

It's often just someone standing around just after a car bombing or disaster, or in a political conference, but the sense of place is excellent. You're 'there', not edited for your benefit, just standing there hearing the soft crackle of flames, people shouting at each other, people digging through post-disaster rubble, political faces you know wandering around a media lobby so you're able to see them when they're not acting from a podium, all of that.

I find that far more interesting than "news".