Is all news media biased...

I have this theory, that if news media didn't carry a bias one way or another, hardly anyone would watch/read it. Surely, a fact is a fact right? Well even before we OFFICIALLY entered this age of 'Fake news' and 'alternative facts' all news reportage was biased towards the liberal or the conservative to varying degrees.

I believe that many people of either persuasion, are less interested in facts and more interested in having their own beliefs validated by journalists who share their perspective, believing that seeing their own views in black and white somehow 'proves' their perspective to be the correct one.

In the UK, the BBC is often accused of having either a pro Israeli bias or a pro Palestinian bias, underlining the idea that people see bias where they choose to see it. For some, even reporting on an issue at all is an indicator of some kind of bias. Some say that of the great immigration debate we're supposedly 'not allowed' to have, and yet seem to be having it 24/7....

Perspectives, thoughts..??

No people, let alone the media, isn't biased. There is some intrinsic bias in everything that's reported. The bad thing is when the bias allows actual falsehoods and truly fake news to be broadcast as news. Here in the US for example, Fox News is the paragon of bias, but I wouldn't say they normally go for complete falsehoods or outrageous fake news. I hate Fox News but they are a biased network for biased people. I have my own biases. 

When I was in my country of origin, news were pretty much impartial. They just really informed what happened during the day. but now I think even that has its own bias. It's not like you can put 23459327501 things in a news cast. You have to prioritize. Even if you only inform of events and facts, the evens and facts that you choose to inform about are already a form of bias. 

No.

From Yes Prime Minister, this is the ultimate guide to British newspapers pandering to the prejudices of their readership:

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

Nothing you ever read anywhere from any source will ever be accurate, and information must always be seen through that lens of uncertainty.   This is why independent thinking is so crucial; you're just as likely to be correct as anyone else.

^ True, or really evil.   But that fact shouldn't dissuade self-generated analysis, foolish or dangerous as those observations may be.   Better that than a cowed and sheepish population.

I don't care. News are the lowest form of entertainment.

js (Easy Money) wrote: Blacksword wrote: ^^^ Mother Jones should be in that far left column. They have articles like "Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are racist" and "Eating three meals a day is racist" They are as frothing at the mouth as Alex Jones is on the far right. Those aren't real articles, they are just something you made up. Now where is the bias?