Quote:I tend toward the conservative, but you're really going to break your back trying to convince anyone with a brain that Fox News (yes, their news department) isn't as agenda driven as is NBC.


When you lead off the news 25 straight days with Bengazi, you're trying to make a point. But at least Sheppard Smith doesn't seem to take himself too seriously.


It's pretty simple: Fox News - It's Obama's fault! ABC/NBC/CBS - it's not Obama's fault!


For any of them you pretty much know what you're going to be told before you hear it. I think they're all part of Comedy Central.

There's always going to be bias in news. Of the actual news networks and real news shows, Fox does indeed present the least biased of any major news network. I watch them all, and if Fox does a story that has a conservative bias, the perception only exists because of the target of said report.


On things like Benghazi, they were the only network really investigating the story, and the perception would be that doing so would be pandering to conservative viewers because it paints dear ruler and his merry band of incompetents in a bad light. That's just perception in the news climate of 2014. Had this same story been broken 20 or 30 years ago it would have been considered straight news reporting. Because today most of the networks are fully in the bag for 0bama, they don't pursue real news stories that might undermine the narrative they've created for him, so they barely reference them in their newscasts.


Fox News wasn't reporting on it because it was bad for 0bama. They reported on it because it was actually newsworthy. Mainstream news used to do that. They don't anymore because they've gone into the business of king making and myth building. They're more concerned about staying in the good graces of the administration so they get the softball interviews and feel like they have a seat at the table than they are about upsetting the apple cart by doing real reporting.


Sharyl Atkisson formerly of CBS all but confirmed that after she decided she'd had enough with the bias she was dealing with. They were trying to force her to soften her reporting to sound less critical. If you saw any of her stuff on Benghazi, she was simply reporting facts that nobody else had, including Fox News. CBS repeatedly tried to change her reports, and even buried a few.

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