Does Anyone know if they have ever heard of a news station being biased? Because some of the news broadcasts in my town are biased because they act crazy about sports and other things. For an example, one time our news broadcasted a half hour news story on a basketball game and they cut everything else out that is regularly broadcasted and only had a 2 minute weather forecast!

i think all news stations have there biases.

im from a small town and our news is always reported wrong. they mix up town names, get simple facts wrong. it happens all the time

Many media outlets exist primarily to express the owner's biases. One only has to point to Fox News. The local station where I used to work was always straight down the middle on it's news and editorial stance. Several years ago, it was bought by a far right-wing company and now exists primarily to air prepackaged corporate propaganda. They have lost all credibility as a news outlet with the general public and there is a serious effort underway to have their license revoked upon the next renewal. This is so serious that a former FCC Commissioner is working on it. The station keeps bringing in new on-air talent trying to improve their ratings, but it isn't working.

dfez, you have to get your ideas of what Fox news is straight. You might have a local Fox affiliate but anything local they do is not "Fox News". If some far-right company has bought out one of your local stations their news is just local news. I have found many local companies to get the news wrong. Especially if it is a slow news day and the topic they are covering is not consiedered important by the repoter. When it comes to national news I have found Fox to be very fair in its reporting. Theri commentators, which again are not news, tend to be conservative.

sub, my old local station was bought out by Sinclair. They fired almost all the staff and on air talent and brought in new people from their corporate staff. At first, they did almost no local news, but just aired weather and sports and prepackaged corporate propaganda pieces disguised as "News". They had a corporate hack named Mark Hyman who did daily far right wing opeds that were scurrilous in their falsehoods and attacks on any non conservative politician. Although, these pieces were done for a national audience, several were direct attacks on local persons that were provably false. During the 04 election cycle, that was most of the so called local programming. As a result the stations ratings have tanked completely. When I worked there, our ratings were almost always twice the audience for news than all other stations combined; now they are last in the market and still falling. They got rid of Hyman and have toned down the right wing rants somewhat when the License recall effort started, and have done some more local coverage, but judging by the continued merry-go-round of on air talent they've had going the last couple years, they are getting desperate for something to save the rep of the station.

As for Fox News, I know why it was created, who owns it, who operates it and how their news coverage is dictated by daily memos from on high. Sometimes these memos leak and it is quite apparent how they attempt to slant the news coverage. There are several actual journalists who do little but fact check Fox's false and misleading reporting. Academic studies have shown that Fox is 4 times as likely to report news falsely than any other major network and their audience is about 4 times more likely to believe it.

I watch both Fox and CNN for most of my news. I find Fox is biased about as far right as CNN is left. That's why I watch both of them. It's amusing to watch how each one spins things their way. When it comes to facts only reports, I find them both to be in error as often as not. Just goes to prove, the only source of information you can believe is Youtube

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