I was watching Nightline a couple nights ago and if I didn’t know better I would have thought I was watching some anti-US propaganda film. It was a report on the state of affairs in Iraq and it seemed like awfully slanted reporting. Has Nightline attempted to balance Fox with overly negative reporting?
is this a joke question ?
it’s network news. of course it’s biased. Heaven forbid you ever happen to watch Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, or Bill Moyers.
Hardly a can of worms to open in cafe society though.
Oh, and it’s not really popular to mention such a topic at all here at the friendly SDMB, you (or actually me now) will probably get slammed for being some far right paranoid wacko in short order.
cheers
and congratulations on discerning the bias, once you’re aware of it, it’s ubiquity becomes even more obvious.
Considering Iraq isn’t the easy win most people are lead to think it is, an honest report on what’s really going on there might seem slanted.
But I don’t watch Nightline and didn’t see the show in question.
Well, if you’re going to toss out the old “liberal media” myth without a by-your-leave, then yeah. :rolleyes:
Counterexample: According to a survey in the 11/2/2002 Editor and Publisher magazine, more than twice as many newspapers endorsed Bush for the 2000 Presidential Election than endorsed Gore. Real liberal bias there, eh?
First off, I put the thread in IMHO and a mod moved it here. Thanks for the heads up on what is and what isn’t popular here on the SDMB. Did you even see the show in question?