# Most biased news source in the US? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 4, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173 "2012-07-04T02:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/41 "2012-07-16T20:11:19Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Wow, easiest poll question ever. Fox “News”. FOX “News” [The More You Watch, The Less You know](http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-12-17/entertainment/30062165_1_fox-news-study-election) ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/42 "2012-07-16T20:23:44Z")
Unsurprising the number of votes FOX is getting. However, had the OP included the Huffington Post, I would’ve voted for that instead. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/43 "2012-07-16T20:48:43Z")
> [@Turble](#): > > MSNBC is finished. They are now NBC News. Microsoft might be starting their own news platform. > > [Microsoft and NBC split with MSNBC renaming to NBC News](http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2191893/microsoft-and-nbc-split-with-msnbc-renaming-to-nbc-news) Hey, that’s not the only change in the air. From the June 28 Christian Science Monitor… > [@](#): > > The News Corp. board of directors has approved a plan to split the company into two pieces, one for the company’s lucrative entertainment businesses and its not-so-lucrative publishing businesses. > > The Wall Street Journal, a News Corp. property joining the publishing side, reports the split will be formally announced on Thursday morning. **The Journal, The Times of London, and HarperCollins will all fall under the publishing side, while 20th Century Fox, Fox News Channel, and the Fox broadcasting network will all fall under entertainment.** Bolding and smirking both mine. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/44 "2012-07-16T20:55:24Z")
Now that the MS is gone from MSNBC, I can click the link without having to shower afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/45 "2012-07-16T22:07:02Z")
Fox news is by far the most biased, and also they outright lie, but I don’t watch MSNBC either. My hatred for Fox by no means excuses MSNBC, even if they do share my political orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Tilt_Boogie)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/46 "2012-07-16T22:24:32Z")
> [@the\_apples\_fell](#): > > Which is the most biased? Easy. FOX ‘News’ - indeed it’s not even considers news (at least as the West understands and uses the term) outside of the tethered minds of those who produce and watch it. If memory serves, Canada actually ban its transmission as it’s not considered factual or in any way impartial - and therefore, not news, just mere right-wing opinion and bias, a position with which I have to say I thoroughly agree. “I get my news from Comedy Central and my comedy from FOX ‘News’” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/48 "2012-07-16T23:04:43Z")
> [@Dennis\_Menace](#): > > So, according to this thread, people watch the news that is most aligned with their political orientation. No one cares about the facts or whatever the truth may be, they want the news to follow their political party lines. That’s eyeopening, and disturbing. Not me, I watch MSNBC for it’s straight reporting of stupid republicans that the Lame Stream Media won’t cover. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/49 "2012-07-16T23:11:48Z")
> [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](#): > > Easy. FOX ‘News’ - indeed it’s not even considers news (at least as the West understands and uses the term) outside of the tethered minds of those who produce and watch it. If memory serves, Canada actually ban its transmission [**No it doesn’t**](http://www.shaw.ca/Television/Channel-Listings/Full-Channel-List/). ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/50 "2012-07-16T23:50:56Z")
Definitely Fox. Their slant runs rings around the others. That said, the others do it too, it’s just not as blatant. Pursuing a degree in Journalism cause me to give up watching news because it trained me to spot this garbage. I can’t watch it without getting a case of the heebie-jeebies but I have family members who just suck it up and am appalled that I don’t watch tv news. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/51 "2012-07-16T23:57:39Z")
Other: [http://boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/53 "2012-07-17T03:19:46Z")
> [@Dennis\_Menace](#): > > So, what does one who is studying Journalism think of the recent headline: “The white hispanic profiled the unarmed black teen before he murdered him.”? Spin by someone on the side of the black teen. I’m sure that is clear to you as well or you wouldn’t ask. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/54 "2012-07-17T06:19:59Z")
MSNBC has a liberal bias, Fox is the full-blown propaganda arm of the Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/55 "2012-07-17T09:44:30Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Lame Stream Media Please tell me you’re using the term “ironically”. > [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Unsurprising the number of votes FOX is getting. However, had the OP included the Huffington Post, I would’ve voted for that instead. Yeah, whenever I have to read a story on HuffPo I try to click through to whatever source they’re using. Can’t stand the HuffPo spin, although they are occasionally useful for aggregating similar stories. > [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > Other: [http://boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) We’re a “news source” now? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/56 "2012-07-17T09:52:41Z")
They’re all biased in one direction or another. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/57 "2012-07-17T16:52:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They’re all biased in one direction or another. Pretty much so, but if you choose to only watch one version, say FOX or MSNBC, you will only get one side of the story and not see the issues the other side (or sides) is presenting. No issue is one-sided but the news stations sure are. IMO, this increases the viewer’s likelyhood of siding with the story they are presented instead of learning the various viewpoints and making up their own minds. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/58 "2012-07-17T17:08:25Z")
I’ll vote for The Epoch Times, the Falun Gong newspaper. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/59 "2012-07-17T17:19:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They’re all biased in one direction or another. The same amount? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/60 "2012-07-18T03:23:18Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’ll vote for The Epoch Times, the Falun Gong newspaper. We may have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/61 "2012-07-18T03:28:35Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The same amount? Basically, yeah. If I bother to watch the news at all nowadays (having worked for US TV news companies, I just can’t get the bad taste out of my mouth), I tend to follow George Carlin’s advice: Listen to one side, listen to the other, and then make up your own goddamned mind! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173/62 "2012-07-20T11:54:42Z")
First poll I’ve seen where there is a factually correct answer, which of course is Fox. There simply is no equivalence to MSNBC. MSNBC adheres to journalistic standards and does not air false information or misinformation. They also have their resident conservatives with their own shows or portions thereof, Joe Scarborough and S.E. Cupp (gotta be the cutest conservative ever). Where are the liberal hosts on Fox? That’s right, there aren’t any. Say something over the top on MSNBC, you get suspended, as Ed Schultz found out. Say something over the top on Fox, you get a bonus in your pay packet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-biased-news-source-in-the-us/627173.md?page=2)