Who in the News Media do you trust to tell you what is really going on in this country?

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Who in the News Media do you trust to tell you what is really going on in this country?

by Scalded Eagle Posted August 22, 2009 17:05:39

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+34 / -1 darlene August 22, 2009 17:10:13

Answered: Glenn Beck (comment)
He is honest and forthright. Glenn is not afraid of Obama and his socialist Liberal regime!
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rosepetal to Lorenzo September 08, 2009 02:16:06

You have no respect for your President what a disgrace.
Lorenzo to rosepetal September 10, 2009 13:02:28

The man is disgraceful. He is in favor of political doctrines that are foreign to this country. Obama has divided this country and is a racist. He has disgraced himself and the American people.
rosepetal to Lorenzo September 10, 2009 15:07:19

You know you can pull that shit on the stupid ones that don't know any better but I know you low life racist antiamerican bullshiters that care nothing for this country. You favor big business that cheat the average americans with your communist / facist lies and divisivess that keep the spotlight off your immoral shit. But your day has come and you are done there is no going back to your hate days, they are done too.
Lorenzo to rosepetal September 10, 2009 15:18:05

Rose, Rose, Rose. Read your statement. You are hate filled, misinformed, and an Obama clone incapable of rational thought. I truly feel sorry for you. I certainly don't favor big business. I am not the one running General Motors. Your man, the Manchurian Teleprompter runs GM. When you get half a brain, write me back.
rosepetal to Lorenzo October 01, 2009 13:29:29 (edited)

Well ask the rank and file how they feel that they are still working and providing for their families and ask the small businesses that supply GM that are able to keep their businesses open. Look at more than your small minded polotics and see your american brothers needing your help. If we can help others in the world why not take care of home? Some of those men and women went to war to protect this country and now they can't get help? And when has it been foreign to help your own? You are being used yourself to harm your own american citizens with your lack of compassion for your own.
Lorenzo to rosepetal October 02, 2009 12:13:32

There were better ways of helping people other than potentially bankrupting the country. GM should have went out of business. The economic recovery would have went much faster, and that would have helped the people that you claim to care for. I suffer from a lot of things, but false compassion isn't one of them.
eclecticpassion August 24, 2009 11:21:30

Answered: None of the above
i'm not American, so we don't have all of these news channels (although we do have some), but it's interesting that the majority of people who voted trust Fox News the most, as it has a reputation for being one of the most Right-wing biased news sources around...
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David to eclecti... August 24, 2009 12:03:33

The problem is neary all news sources are biased. The very act of selecting which news to report is based on someone's personal viewpoint. It may be the anchor, news director, or network owner. It also may be based on politics - political favors to the parent company.
Danny to David August 24, 2009 13:02:47
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rosepetal to eclecti... August 24, 2009 13:32:08

Meaning you only get one sided news slanted towards what they want. How stupid is that?
eclecti... to rosepetal August 24, 2009 16:27:06 (edited)

that's what i mean, it's surprising so many people here on SH trust it the most, when it's known to be one of the most biased news sources...
Scalded... to rosepetal August 25, 2009 00:50:13

Its better than being in the dark!!!
rosepetal to Scalded... September 05, 2009 01:14:37 (edited)

You idiot you are in the dark that is the problem. Deaf, dumb and blind. americans at least most intelligent, thinking, reading americans are not viewing our current president as sinister or a communist. The republicans are dumbing you down without a fight from you. they are getting you to cut your own throat with all this bullshit.
cjj to eclecti... August 24, 2009 17:35:39

Ya think?
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ENR August 24, 2009 10:53:59

Answered: None of the above
Lou Dobbs
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kirkinsf August 24, 2009 10:47:35

Answered: None of the above
Jon Stewart. Comedian he may be, but he knows the issues. Mostly I get news from the AP stuff on yahoo.
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kirkinsf to kirkinsf August 24, 2009 10:48:34

Okay. Fox is #1 in this poll? Sodahead has officially lost all credibility with me.
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eclecti... to kirkinsf August 24, 2009 11:22:27

i'm not American, but we get the Daily Show with Jon Stewart too- it's a pretty good programme :)
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Johnny-O to eclecti... August 27, 2009 04:03:03

You may not be American, but you got more sense than most of thes bozos!

Eclectic, where're you from? GB? You spelled 'programme', why I asked...
eclecti... to Johnny-O August 27, 2009 14:49:20

hey thanks :) yeah i'm from the uk (wales) i have cousins that moved to tennessee a few years ago though. where are you from?!
i wasn't aware that programme was spelt differently over your side...
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intolerantrwj August 24, 2009 10:06:40 (edited)

Answered: Glenn Beck (comment)
I'd also have chosen Fox if two choices were possible, as I feel Bill O and Greta do an honest job ... it is tough to beat Becks ' Take No Prisoners ' approach.

I notice you don't list Hannity ... not that I mind, as I don't care for his incessant agitation even if he does get it right ... do you also find him ' Un - Entertaining / Annoying ' in the same manner and fashion as Olbermann or did he not make the list for other reasons ?

My faves ... O'Reilly, Dobbs, Beck, Greta, Levin (edit) ... damn near forget Michelle Malkin
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DavE August 24, 2009 09:42:09

Answered: Fox News (comment)
And Glenn Beck is Fox News' most brutally honest spokesman when you cut through his entertainment goofy-ness.
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intoler... to DavE August 24, 2009 10:11:39

I'll second that DavE ... I don't think he does himself any favors with some of the goofy ... downright honest though, gotta' give him that !
Captain America August 24, 2009 08:45:37

Answered: None of the above
I was not aware we still had current events. After all when our news papers are owned by an Australian its kind of unsettling.
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Johnny-O to Captain... August 27, 2009 04:01:21

AH-AHAHAHAHAHA!

Well spoken, Captain America! Well said!

Rupert Murdoch, corporate pirate!

Arrrrgh! Meet me behind the mizzenmast, laddie!

Arrrrrggghhh!
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CRX H22 August 24, 2009 07:45:10

Answered: Fox News (comment)
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Scalded... to CRX H22 August 25, 2009 00:53:24

Good choices!!!
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holidayzbeauty August 24, 2009 07:12:07

Answered: Glenn Beck (comment)
....the guy is straight up all the way!
Danny to holiday... August 24, 2009 13:03:24
holiday... to Danny August 29, 2009 18:41:52

i have seen this, good video
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Spizzzo August 24, 2009 07:10:07

Answered: MSNBC (comment)
MSNBC has a STRONG pattern of doing a good job of backing up their opinions with solid data. Other outlets rarely even feel the need to try.
Johnny-O to Spizzzo August 27, 2009 04:27:51

That's true. Both Maddow and Olberman always back up their data, and you should see Chris Matthews tear into someone with facts to back up his case - onetime, last year, he had on a rightie radio talk show host who was so loudly sure he had Obama dead to rights on the issue of being an 'appeaser'...

Chris asked him, over and over again, "What was it that the originlal appeaser, Neville Chamberlain, did to deserve such a label? What dio he do? What did he do? Besides meeting with Adolf Hitler?"

He asked him this over and over again, for ten minutes, and finally he made the fool admit that he didn't know that Neville Chamberlain signed away the whole of Sudetenland in Czechoslavakia, and also approved the annexation of Austria, all without firing a shot - and just basically dismantled the guy!

His point was, meeting with a potential adversary (like Ahmendinijad of Iran, or even Kim Jong Il of Korea) jsut to talk is NOT appeasement! You have to give the store away to be an appeaser, and so far, Obama has only made friends overseas wherever he has gone.

It was beautiful to watch! On Fux News, all they ever do is order somone's microphone shut off!

Hahahaha, I love it!

~Johnny-O
Spizzzo to Johnny-O August 27, 2009 08:57:06 (edited)

Yep. I respect Matthews a LOT for insider politician-infighting analysis and general knowledge, but I do find his style of stepping all over interviewees as they try to answer and his occasional tendency to plow on with with set questions rather than truly evaluating what the interviewee has said to be disconcerting, and to make him less of a great interviewer. OTOH, as you point out, his bulldog persistence in MAKING the interviewee respond to his actual question can pay off, bigtime.

Olbermann is the most entertaining, but is also the one who can go "over the top" at times. It's quite clear when he does so, though. He's not fooling anyone when he does.

I have a lot of respect for CNN, but dislike a LOT their rather new reliance on the reporting of Twitter activity in response to their stories as "real news". They're not trying to support their arguments enough, either.
Getreal August 24, 2009 07:03:51

Answered: None of the above
They all suck. Commentators instead of journalists. I'd rather read the onion (not a real news source) than the other questionable logic sources. They all have a huge spin zones.
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Broddy August 24, 2009 06:59:22

Answered: None of the above
None of the Above or ALL of the above which is an answer that should have been here, I watch fox news , i watch CNN, i read the news , on a blue moon i might even watch one of the prime networks .
Not all of us are sheep , we know that all news channels are tainted and report the news THEY want us to hear in the tone and light they want us to view it in.
IF there was even 1 news outlet that gave me the plain honest truth without there own agenda tainting it i would without a doubt watch only that 1 channel , as hard as it is to believe WE THE PEOPLE can actually form our own opinions when given the chance.
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eclecti... to Broddy August 24, 2009 11:24:16

yep, the best thing to do is compare how the news story is reported by different sources, and then decide
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IsraeliteRian84 August 24, 2009 06:52:45

Answered: CNN (comment)
Lou Dobbs And Glenn Beck
Ty August 24, 2009 06:37:23

Answered: None of the above
Dunno ae
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teamamerica August 24, 2009 06:03:38

Answered: None of the above
I trust the CATO Institute. The Libertarian Think Tank.
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Heather August 24, 2009 05:56:34

Answered: Fox News (comment)
They are the best for the truth.