one nation under god?
In an Op-Ed column from the New York Times by Thomas Friedman (November 4, 2004), he talked about the difference between reading, say, the New York Times for your news, and getting it from Fox News.
An excerpt:
"This was not an election. This was station identification. I'd bet anything that if the election ballots hadn't had the names Bush and Kerry on them but simply asked instead, 'Do you watch Fox TV or read The New York Times?' the Electoral College would have broken the exact same way."
I totally agree with this quote, and I have used it often since I read the original piece. Fox News is so skewed that it pains me to actually sit down and watch it critically. They make themselves out to be the "everyman's news," while the New York Times is still on a pedastel to most Americans. Plus, it's easier to flip a switch on your boob-tube and take in all of the day's skewed Republican news.
(Thanks to Lindsay Moyer for suggesting the topic of this entry.)
posted by Jessica @ 7:23 PM
1 Comments:
Well, yes, but where can a person go for non-skewed news? CBS? CNN? ABC? MSNBC? Blogs? Everywhere you go, people will find a bias to one school of thought or another. The NYT is just as guilty as any... so, the question becomes, do we find ourself attracted to particular news outlets because they match our political affiliation, or do we tend to find our political views shaped by the news outlets to which we're attracted?
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