Is the marketplace of ideas fair and balanced or does news show the bias of its owners?

May 1st, 2011 | by admin |

"satisfying the bottom line"- yeah- that would be why the most popular stations on radio got CLOSED and the most popular show on TV got cancelled during media consolidation.

you want a free press,go out n buy one

  1. 12 Responses to “Is the marketplace of ideas fair and balanced or does news show the bias of its owners?”

  2. By Matthew D on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    Well if the marketplace is a large pond with many small fish bias is not a problem. However when its a small pond with few large fish bias is a great deal worse.
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  3. By Gabriel Thegreat on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    I think so though, for the most part the bias of satisfying the bottom line is greater than the political. For example CNN. They just put anything that they think will get ratings, even if it’s not really "news." (like some stupid youtube video or something)
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  4. By tweetypiie on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    you want a free press,go out n buy one
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  5. By scooterpoop on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    The free market place of ideas is very unfair to brain-dead liberals who have insufficient tools.
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  6. By BOBO on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    The Major Managed News Media(MMNM) was bought off many many moons ago!
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    FCC is as political as it gets!

  7. By Meredyth W on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    News shows the bias of its owners. There are too few media outlets owned by a handful of people. I personally watch BBC news in order to get an outside view to US political news. Or, I watch Fox and MSNBC and see what they both are saying to compare notes. I figure if those two can agree on a fact, it is probably reliable. Really, we all need a HEPA BS filter to get anything unbiased. There seems to be far to little news, and far too much biased commentary.
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  8. By Davis on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    Ok, imagine 2 big fish in one pond. They have different ideas about how to use their food. One wants to save up the food and let it spoil and the other wants to use it on meaningless shit. The other fish are starving and want the food, but the two big fish call their ideas stupid, calling them lazy. So they force the little fish to pick sides, and that what we call a democracy. The media is just a branch of this.
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  9. By Mad Roy on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    We have very little news or journalism any more. It has all turned into a giant propaganda contest. Agendas, not facts, determine what is broadcast and printed. I am sickened at the prospect of a nineteen month election campaign coming on. TV is gonna suck even worse than usual til November 2012.
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  10. By Pfo on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    All things made by humans have some bias.

    If you started a news show too, yours would be no different.
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  11. By R on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    it’s the second one…
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  12. By AverageJoe on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    Why was Walter Cronkhite a traitor?
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  13. By GEORGE B on May 1, 2011 | Reply

    Liberal or conservative are meaningles when it comes to the media…. well most of the time.

    All media is biased. Newsroom editors must select which items to put on the air and which to ignore. That choice involves the biases of the editors.

    If they air what the viewers and listeners want to hear and see then their advertisers will pay to have their ads aired on those programs. If they don’t get the listeners, like the liberal Air America Network did not, then they don’t get enough advertising rebenue and the go broke and go off the air.
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