Newsflash: CNN and Foxnews are biased.
I have a great friend who is a diehard liberal and he hates FOX News. My mom and dad are die hard conservative and they hate CNN. They each think that their favorite 24 hour news network is by far the most fair and unbiased news network on television.
Every time I talk to my mom about politics I hear little bits of Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly mingled in with rational thought. Every time I talk to my friend Kyle I get little bits of Lou Dobbs and Wolf Blitzer mingled with hippie rhetoric. All things considered, I think that it is funny how much people are swayed by media biases. Each side bitterly accuses the other of being so biased and uninformed, but has it ever occurred to anyone that both liberals and conservatives may both be a little uninformed? And if they are informed, heaven forbid anyone ever admit that there is even a little bit of bias in their primary sources of information. I am not siding with either one, I watch both FOX News and CNN. However, I am not going to lie, most of the time I spend my time watching MTV reality shows. I find that the only secret agenda that MTV has is to make me want to buy American Eagle clothes and listen to Lil’ Bow Wow songs.
Sure, there was that whole, VOTE OR DIE campaign that Diddy had during the last presidential election, but that was pretty much harmless. Sure, it was essentially the VOTE (for John Kerry) OR DIE campaign, and I did get a little annoyed by celebrities with GED’s spouting out uninformed political rhetoric, but everyone knows that young people don’t vote. In the end we found that it had little impact on the election, much less than Bill O’Reilly had with all of the neo-cons that voted W back in office. Hell, even half of the celebrities that wore those shirts and appeared in the commercials didn’t even vote, how are we going to expect the kids like me who can only take “news” in five minute chunks between music videos to go out in any sort of significant numbers to vote.
Needless to say, all news is biased, I don’t care what you say there is always biased information floating around. So if you get your news from one source and if you just take it at face value, then you should probably re-evaluate how “informed” you are and just give up and start watching MTV reality shows. And if anyone wants to join me, I watch the Real World/Road Rules Challenge on MTV every Thursday night, you are welcome to join me.
