Question regarding news station's biases

[PsychoCop]

I don't live in the US, but I do get several stations on cable...

my question is...

is it just me or is FOX NEWS just TOO slanted to the right? What are the other stances of the other stations regading politics?

[Peregrine]

This is a pretty controversial question, as the answers you'll receive depend a lot on a person's political leanings. Conservatives tend to view most of the major news networks as too liberal, and Fox for them brings another viewpoint that has been long needed. Many left-leaning people thing Fox is an extremely slanted right wing network. People in the middle (such as myself, I think) tend to see less bias on either side than those more toward the edges, politically.

[Blackadar]

Fox is, by far, the most "obvious" of all the news stations in terms of ideological leanings.

[sachmo71]

I've been told that NPR is very left wing. Avoid that too.

[JonInMiddleGA]

This is a pretty controversial question, as the answers you'll receive depend a lot on a person's political leanings. Conservatives tend to view most of the major news networks as too liberal, and Fox for them brings another viewpoint that has been long needed. Many left-leaning people thing Fox is an extremely slanted right wing network. People in the middle (such as myself, I think) tend to see less bias on either side than those more toward the edges, politically.

For a thumbnail sketch, I think you done good.

That's a (pardon the pun but I just can't resist) fair and balanced answer IMO.

[PsychoCop]

it just makes me crack up how they keep on saying "fair and balanced news" right after they criticize EVERYTHING that's been going on in the DNC.

[Blackadar]

NPR really depends on your local station. In NC, the local NPR station was a little left when Clinton was in office. When Bush was awarded the Presidency (ahem), they moved a little right, but not too much.

Down here in FL, the local NPR station is very right - along the lines of FOX news.

[Blackadar]

it just makes me crack up how they keep on saying "fair and balanced news" right after they criticize EVERYTHING that's been going on in the DNC.

They're about as unbiased as Big Tobacco doing a study on the health effects of tobacco. :)

[Peregrine]

I've been told that NPR is very left wing.

I'm an NPR fan, not because of their political or basic news coverage, which I think is a bit slanted, but because they actually cover a lot of interesting stories that you never hear anywhere else, such as *gasp* things that happen outside the US. The major news networks are too wrapped up in the hot story of the moment/kidnappings/scandalous trials/potatoes that look like the Virgin Mary to be very interesting to me.

[Buddy Grant]

...People in the middle (such as myself, I think) tend to see less bias on either side than those more toward the edges, politically.
Most everyone wants to think they are in the middle, and when all is said and done I think most people are in the middle, regardless of their party pin:). FOX local affiliates are not as outragious as the national shows, but the national shows are just thinly disguised propaganda.

[Leonidas]

Fox News is clearly right wing, but I don't think they try hide this. That stupid "Fair and Balanced" motto aside I think Fox is pretty up front about being the alternative to what they perceive as the typical, liberal media. On the other hand, CNN and the major networks all bragg about being unbiased when anyone with half a brain and an objective viewpoint can see they are liberally slanted.

Personally, I don't like or watch Fox. They are too far to the right for my blood. I watch CNN just for basic newsbreaking stories. I think MSNBC is the most down the middle network, and while I was in the desert during the war I think they far and away had the best account of what was really going on in the war. We periodically got them on our satellite and I would usually switch between them, BBC World, and Sky News (which had some really different perspective with punk rocker chicks doing the news).