The Conservative Media

Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Apr 12 2003, 10:15 AM
I was getting a lot of my war news from BBC radio via the net until a few days ago, but finally got disgusted with the coverage and have scaled back considerably - the anti-war, anti American bias of a lot of the coverage was becoming just too obvious.

I am very glad that Rummy didn't tune into them over the past two days. He would have had a stroke.

i think this is true in any media. all media is biased in my opinion, intentionally or not. US media cannot possibly show things from a balanced perspective to someone in Syria for example. They percieve a completely different reality that is reinforced by cultural and political realities there as well as their own state run media. The show the news from a completely different perspective and what is newsworthy in BloatedGoat, Syria - is probably not news in the Western world.

Al Jazeera (once nicknamed "All Osama, All the time") justifies thier reports as "showing the other side" and think they are more balanced because they are showing what the West does not report on the greater war against Islam.

Great Britain shows the news from a British perspective, they show the news as it is relevent to their own citizens and their own reality. I have never really thought it to be "anti-American" - I just considered it to be one more perspective.

BBC in my opinion, is much more liberal in their reporting on most things. Certainly more so that CNN. I dont mean that in a good or bad or political way... i just mean that they tend to focus on the human side of everything vs economic or other.

if anyone noticed BBC and CNN are fighting a little marketing war now where CNN seems to have lost in the past in Europe where Europeans prefer news that in my opinion, is more consistent with their own attitudes, beliefs or perceptions.

very funny to watch people on GFY and their attitude of the media.

CNN = brainwashed, propaganda machine
BBC = the one truth

Now BBC has a new tagline -

"BBC - Demand a broader view"

So does CNN, but i forgot it.

"CNN - fair, balanced... blah blah..."