Who is more partisan, Fox News or MSNBC?

The real story here isn't in the headline, but CNN, the provider that offers balanced coverage, has become the least popular of the three. The mass public does not want balanced news coverage - they want to watch partisan hype that agrees with their already established worldview - so it is becoming less and less profitable to offer it. One more reason our country is headed into the crapper.

The Pew Research Center is out with a new report today looking at media coverage of the presidential campaign since this summer's conventions. It's got plenty of worthwhile tidbits and newsy nuggets, but the one that jumped out at us right away was this snapshot of just how segmented and partisan (and negative) cable news has been this election cycle:

The study ... reveals the degree to which the two cable channels that have built themselves around ideological programming, MSNBC and Fox, stand out from other mainstream media outlets. And MSNBC stands out the most. On that channel, 71% of the segments studied about Romney were negative in nature, compared with just 3% that were positive-a ratio of roughly 23-to-1. On Fox, 46% of the segments about Obama were negative, compared with 6% that were positive-a ratio of about 8-to-1 negative. These made them unusual among channels or outlets that identified themselves as news organizations.

For comparison, here's how the coverage broke down across the larger cross section of the major media outlets surveyed: For Obama, 19 percent of stories were clearly favorable, compared to 30 percent unfavorable and 51 percent mixed. For Romney, 15 percent of the coverage was favorable, compared to 38 percent unfavorable and 47 percent mixed.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... gests.html

I sure wouldn't classify CNN as balanced by a long shot.

CNN is balanced? lol

Its corporate- They're all corporate, even MSNBC or whatever

It's what they don't ever talk about......Campiegn finance reform, the fedral reserve system...etc etc etc

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I don't think Fox would be quite so partisan if it wasn't the only news network that doesn't lean left. If you wanted to know more about the Benghazi terrorist attack, you really only had one option for the last couple months.

Heisenberg wrote: I don't think Fox would be quite so partisan if it wasn't the only news network that doesn't lean left. If you wanted to know more about the Benghazi terrorist attack, you really only had one option for the last couple months.

Good point. So much of what counts as slanted coverage is which stories a network chooses to cover.

People like slanted news that agrees with their own ideas? Of course, the highest rated shows on MSNBC and FOX are the blowhards like Maddow, O'Reilly, & Hannity.
But do they count as entertainment or news?

Heisenberg wrote: I don't think Fox would be quite so partisan if it wasn't the only news network that doesn't lean left. If you wanted to know more about the Benghazi terrorist attack, you really only had one option for the last couple months.

You are such an ignorant retard, and who really cares about Benghazi?

Benghazi is a big scandal but lieing the country into a 3 trillion dollar unfunded "war" in Iraq is not? A million innocent civilians die there, but i'm supposed to get upset over a few office workers Benghazi? Go F*** yourself

FredHayek wrote:

Heisenberg wrote: I don't think Fox would be quite so partisan if it wasn't the only news network that doesn't lean left. If you wanted to know more about the Benghazi terrorist attack, you really only had one option for the last couple months.

Good point. So much of what counts as slanted coverage is which stories a network chooses to cover.

People like slanted news that agrees with their own ideas? Of course, the highest rated shows on MSNBC and FOX are the blowhards like Maddow, O'Reilly, & Hannity.
But do they count as entertainment or news?

You guys do not know whats going on or how the world works..Youre like babes in the woods..Fodder, pawns, fresh meat for the grinder...

Virtually worthless human beings

No offense

Big Doug wrote:

Heisenberg wrote: I don't think Fox would be quite so partisan if it wasn't the only news network that doesn't lean left. If you wanted to know more about the Benghazi terrorist attack, you really only had one option for the last couple months.

You are such an ignorant retard, and who really cares about Benghazi?

Benghazi is a big scandal but lieing the country into a 3 trillion dollar "war" in Iraq is not? a million innocent civilians die there, but i'm supposed to get upset over a few office workers Benghazi? Go F*** yourself

Who was killed during the Watergate coverup scandal asshole? How did that affect your pathetic life? But we should just move on and not care if the president and his administration is covering up their bullshit story. And if you're going to tell me to go fuck myself, maybe you should man up for once and tell it to my face... would be happy to meet you.

Big Doug wrote:

FredHayek wrote:

Heisenberg wrote: I don't think Fox would be quite so partisan if it wasn't the only news network that doesn't lean left. If you wanted to know more about the Benghazi terrorist attack, you really only had one option for the last couple months.

Good point. So much of what counts as slanted coverage is which stories a network chooses to cover.

People like slanted news that agrees with their own ideas? Of course, the highest rated shows on MSNBC and FOX are the blowhards like Maddow, O'Reilly, & Hannity.
But do they count as entertainment or news?

You guys do not know whats going on or how the world works..Youre like babes in the woods..Fodder, pawns, fresh meat for the grinder...

Virtually worthless human beings

No offense

And who are you butt-head... Kissinger?

Raees wrote: The real story here isn't in the headline, but CNN, the provider that offers balanced coverage, has become the least popular of the three.

The only people who think CNN offers balanced coverage either work for the company or are hanging onto the left fringe by their fingernails.