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Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Jack Mirkinson reports that Pew Research Center's annual "State of the Media" study found that, since 2007, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC have all cut back sharply on the amount of actual reporting found on their airwaves. Cheaper, more provocative debate or interview segments have largely filled the void. Pew found that Fox News spent 55 percent of the time on opinion and 45 percent of the time on reporting. Critics of that figure would likely contend that the network's straight news reporting tilts conservative, but it is true that Fox News has more shows that feature reporting packages than MSNBC does. According to Pew MSNBC made the key decision to reprogram itself in prime time as a liberal counterweight to the Fox News Channel's conservative nighttime lineup. The new MSNBC strategy and lineup were accompanied by a substantial cut in interview time and sharply increased airtime devoted to edited packages. The Pew Research examination of programming in December 2012 found MSNBC by far the most opinionated of the three networks, with nearly 90% of MSNBC's primetime coverage coming in the form of opinion or commentary."
If they have to tell you that they are 'fair and balanced' then its likely that they aren't, but also add in everything that tells you that it 'leans forward', or other crap.
The Soviet Unions national newspaper, during the height of the governments paranoid plummet into self destruction, was called 'Pravda' which translates to 'Truth' or 'Justice' in Russian.
When was the last time a 'breaking story' was something uncovered by an investigative reporter, rather than spoon fed to it by pundits or politicians?
"His name was James Damore."
This is as misleading as the studies that "disproved" that organic food is more nutritious. Nobody was making the claim they disproved.
There are absolutely many people making the claim that organic foods are more nutritious. Like here, here and here.
And yes, there are people making the claim that MSNBC is not biased or much less biased than Fox News.
You and I came to the same conclusion "Fox tries to pretend its (sic) unbiased", but we clearly have radically different opinions whether that's a good thing. If a TV channel is going to be producing a heavily biased package, I'd prefer that it acknowledges that the content is opinion. Airing talking points as news devalues the work of actual news organizations by casting doubt over all of journalism.
I think at some point, MSNBC realized that CNN was trying to stay in the middle between Fox and MSNBC, instead of staying in the middle between Left and Right. They're currently embarked on an effort to see how insanely far left they can go to bring CNN left of center before somebody at CNN realizes whats going on.
No, I'm not being serious.
... and in the DRM, bind them.
"All the news that's fit to tint."
What surprises me is that ANY of their content is considered "reporting". They don't even try to do news.
No, but 3 and 5 are outside your door and want a word with you since you're obviously biased towards even numbers and have a deep seated hatred for all things odd. Also, they don't want to be called odd anymore since that word has gotten a negative tone to it, the correct term today is "bidivisionally challenged".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
As an American, I'd have to say I agree with your assessment. This sums the situation up quite nicely.
Happy people make bad consumers.