Am I the only one here who listens about equally to foxnews/talk radio and MSNBC? If there is anyone else who does please help me with this question.

Bob wrote:foxnews/talk radio never has anything good to say about obama and never has anything bad to say about romney.

MSNBC never has anything good to say about romney and never has anything bad to say about obama.

That's not an exaggeration. It's literally the truth.
Does that seem a little odd to you? How can one individual be god and the other be the devil to one of these media? And the different individual be god and the different individual be the devil to the other media?
Is it actually possible that one of these two individuals is always right about everything, and the other individual is always wrong about everything?
And why does one-half of this media see everything be black, and the other half see everything be white?

Is that reality?
Because, if it is, it contradicts everything I've learned about human beings over the course of 63 years. Could my thinking about that be so totally fucked up and everything I thought I've learned about people be wrong about what reality actually is? I'm really starting to wonder. Because the other way of thinking is practiced by so many people with so much intelligence and so much experience and so much learning.
Whereas I'm just one person who does not have all that collective intelligence and experience and learning.

I guess what I'm really asking is, am I crazy and everyone else is sane?

boards of FL wrote:I watch CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and listen to conservative AM talk radio (this is just for news that I watch or listen to, I read just about everything online). The differences that I see between FOX/AM radio and MSNBC is that FOX/AM completely makes shit up, whereas MSNBC chooses only to focus on the negatives of the opposing party. MSNBC isn't lying, per se; they are merely omitting the negatives of their own preferred party. Also, if MSNBC makes a blunder, they will stand corrected. FOX will never do this.

CNN is usually fair and doesn't sway either way.

Bob wrote:I think I'm going to have to turn foxnews/AM and MSNBC off alltogether.
It's just starting to twist my mind up too much.
I notice that when I do have the will power to not listen to any of that and instead watch a movie or listen to the jukebox, I feel so much better afterwards.

It's also getting harder and harder for me to read all the posts here which are obviously influenced by that media.

Bob wrote:I think I'm going to have to turn foxnews/AM and MSNBC off alltogether.
It's just starting to twist my mind up too much.
I notice that when I do have the will power to not listen to any of that and instead watch a movie or listen to the jukebox, I feel so much better afterwards.

It's also getting harder and harder for me to read all the posts here which are obviously influenced by that media.

Floridatexan wrote:

Bob wrote:I think I'm going to have to turn foxnews/AM and MSNBC off alltogether.
It's just starting to twist my mind up too much.
I notice that when I do have the will power to not listen to any of that and instead watch a movie or listen to the jukebox, I feel so much better afterwards.

It's also getting harder and harder for me to read all the posts here which are obviously influenced by that media.

My approach exactly, Bob. I don't watch any of it anymore, except the local news on occasion. There's so much hype and so little substance.

Floridatexan wrote:I just read Dan Rather's autobiography, RATHER OUTSPOKEN. He's got a much smaller venue these days at HDNet (watch on YouTube), but he's approaching 80 and still plugging away. I think you'll find him in complete agreement about the corporatization of the news; in fact, I doubt there are many people who could tell it the way he does because he spent so many years as a reporter.

othershoe1030 wrote:Bob, I don't know how long this article will be on the front page of their site but media matters has a very interesting bar graph showing how much time each of the networks CNN, FOX, MSNBC took debunking some of the "falsehoods" in some of Romney's speeches. This is how the different networks with their particular point of view filter or reinforce what they want their base audience to think or to be aware of.

Watching F News or MSNBC is like eating junk food for your mind. If you want whole grain information and data as good as vegetables you have to watch PBS News Hour and listen to NPR. Democracy Now is also good.

othershoe1030 wrote:If you would take an open minded look at the news hours reports or listen to NPR for a few days you might change your mind.
NPR and the News Hour both have excellent reputations for being accurate in their reports.

The graphs do a good job of showing which news organizations even took the time to debunk the inaccurate stories being pumped out on the campaign trail by Romney.

ghandi wrote:

othershoe1030 wrote:If you would take an open minded look at the news hours reports or listen to NPR for a few days you might change your mind.
NPR and the News Hour both have excellent reputations for being accurate in their reports.

The graphs do a good job of showing which news organizations even took the time to debunk the inaccurate stories being pumped out on the campaign trail by Romney.

Isn't npr government funded?

Might as well listen to the cia or the fbi. I'm sure they wouldn't lie to us.

PkrBum wrote:i think the firing of juan williams was a clue. if you ever listen to npr... their politics are made clear... that said the do present a better quality of "news"from than most other sources.

othershoe1030 wrote:Can any of you who discount NPR's reporting point to a body of work they've produced and say it was not accurate?
That is the point.