Robert Mueller Testimony in Congress Today....
In the land of independent (unbiased) media... LOL
Most Americans get their TV news from free TV channels which are based one way or another. TV watching matters because this testimony was designed to get most visuals from hearing from Mueller that Trump committed crimes.
It is raging very differently on progressive and conservative media. Where is the unbiased media?
So, you think only "free tv" is biased?
Yes, all free TV has corporate owners who tell them which way to bend. I think PBS is unbiased. As good as NPR is, I think it also has a progressive bend. I prefer Google News that shows a collection of news on various platforms and BBC.
Try foreign media - BBC news, The Guardian website etc.
You are right
CNN is not progressive media.
How so? Can I say Fox News is not conservative media?
@St-Sinner Just google what the common definitions of those words are and look how they apply to reality. Watch CNN clips and see how progressive policies get presented there and what policies Pelosi or Obama put forth that can be called communist.
You don't have to believe me. You can check the information for yourself.
@Dietl geebus, communism has been dead for at least 20 years.....maybe " socialism" or "progessive" would sound more like you have entered the 21st century?
@AnneWimsey
No, we all know the difference among them all. It is not a matter of opinion but which TV channel is biased is a matter of opinion. To many it is, while some say it is not. The same is true about Fox News.
@St-Sinner You might use the terms differently but progressive is not all the left to me, whatever. Every media or even every person is biased. What we need to find out is where the bias is. CNN for instance I would say has a center-left corporate bias when it comes to most issues. But on foreign policy or military expenses it is pretty right leaning.
@AnneWimsey I'm not even sure conservatives have arrived in the 20th century yet. "Communism" and also "socialism" has been used as a derogatory term for decades now, but it seems like people don't care about that anymore and only want to see policies that work no matter how they are called.
@St-Sinner You see, I don't think that you can't be biased in any way. You can try to presents things as fairly as possible but it will always be through a certain lense that depends on the reporter's biases. I don't know enough about the BBC's reporting on the US to say for sure, but I haven't heard about a huge bias regarding one party or the other. So as far as I know the BBC is at least balanced on this issue. That those reporters at least try to present an issue in a fair and balanced way is the difference to propaganda networks like Fox News, that only want to construct narratives that further the political goal of their owners.
@St-Sinner Thanks, I also had the impression that you wanted a genuine discussion, since you, also not like others, asked fair questions. I can see how my first comment could have been interpreted and how it lead to our little discussion. I would consider myself progressive to the extreme but we could talk about that at another place and time if you want.
turn on C-span and judge for yourself, I don't need someone to tell me what I just heard.
I don't think that it will make a difference.
@glennlab My statement that most American media is not independent meant to suggest those are not unbiased. C-Span is not watched by majority of Americans as it is Cable TV. Most get their news from free TV channels which have either a progressive or conservative bias.
I want real answers but I want relevant answers, not an example of one channel that does not have as much wide audience as free and biased channels.