# How biased is NewsNation?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 28, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221 "2024-09-28T22:53:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/1 "2024-09-28T22:53:42Z")

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It presents itself as unbiased, but its recent promotion of Bill O’Reilly interviewing Elon Musk leads me to believe it might not be true. What’s the scoop?

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**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/2 "2024-09-28T23:19:32Z")

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I’ve always given them the side eye. They hired o’reilly and I think I read that they have fox people on the production side or something.

Here’s what I found.

> **[This ‘Centrist’ Cable-News Channel Is Just Fox News Lite](https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsnation-the-centrist-cable-news-channel-is-just-fox-news-lite)**
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> I watched NewsNation for a week to assess whether the upstart channel is really a neutral alternative to Fox and CNN. Here’s what I found.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/3 "2024-09-28T23:57:42Z")

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To my awareness, there’s no American video-based news that’s operated and targeted to the serious, unbiased sorts.

You have to get your news in text form.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/4 "2024-09-29T00:12:25Z")

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Hiring O’Reilly pretty much tells you all you need to know.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/5 "2024-09-29T02:17:10Z")

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Which is probably something to do with profits rather than ideology. Are they more biased than CNN, say, or just in a different direction?

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/6 "2024-09-29T02:35:14Z")

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When I saw it, it was so bland, I couldn’t watch it. There’s unbiased, and there’s just plain boring.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-biased-is-newsnation/1008221/7 "2024-09-29T02:36:00Z")

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I haven’t watched them in awhile, but in the beginning their straight news programs were light on politics and seemed more down the middle. Their commentators and talk programs skewed conservative.