Shopenhauers fairness discussion

Westside Steve

I don't think it's imagination whatsoever to expect people who regularly watch Fox News or MSNBC are more informed than 95 percent of the population. Of course I just pulled the number 95 out of my ass but you understand. People who choose to spend time watching political shows probably care a lot more than your average voter. Anyway the fairness doctrine seems to be an end run around freedom of speech but its pretty easily defended against. As a matter of fact if I owned a station and was doing the news and I wanted to make one side or the other sound better or worse it's easy to do without any great obvious writing. an example might be placement of the opposing viewpoint. Tell the story you want believed to go after your lead story as a rebuttal. Leaves the audience with the rebuttal in mind. If you have two opinions select someone charismatic for the one you like and less so for the one you don't.

Fair and balanced, I assume, prefers to the old days when almost every news outlet including the 3 networks and almost every newspaper cleaned left. You never even heard the stories that fox airs.

People with a particular viewpoint will seek out news outlets that support their beliefs, not vice versa.

PS I have absolutely no fear, 0, zip, zilch none of Bain Capital. They are just the boogeyman of the left.

WSS

MLD Woody

Thanks to this forum I read more right wing news than left, lol .

Aren't there studies out there about how informed to viewers of certain networks are?

Edit:

http://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

There it is. Or at least an article referencing it (I'm on my phone)

DieHardBrownsFan

I find the foreign news much more accurate and way less biased.

Westside Steve

For the record Woodrow I watch Fox and MSNBC as well as some CNN and the sunday morning talk shows. Well Fox Sunday morning and George Stephanopoulos.

PBS too.

WSS

Westside Steve

@diehardbrownsfan said:
I find the foreign news much more accurate and way less biased.

That could be, die hard. They don't really have a political agenda for us besides how it affects themselves. We tend to dwell on the minutae of American politics that probably don't matter at all to the rest of the world. Still I would imagine, & I don't know because I don't read the French papers, most of what they write about is Francocentric so I wouldn't care about it either.

Also they have their own list of prejudices and enemies which don't necessarily mirror ours.

WSS

Schopenhauer

Lead you horses to water and you piss in it.

Stay thirsty my friends!!

Westside Steve

@mld-woody said:

Thanks to this forum I read more right wing news than left, lol .

Aren't there studies out there about how informed to viewers of certain networks are?

Edit:

http://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

There it is. Or at least an article referencing it (I'm on my phone)

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/22/science-say-gop-voters-better-informed-open-minded/#!

WSS

Schopenhauer

@diehardbrownsfan said:
Herr Schopenhauer only mentions the bad republicans. Not members of the Obammy/Holder Nazi's.

Actually, I am pretty timely. Notice in this article from December 2013 that it mentions the GOP resisting bringing back the fairness doctrine. Wonder why? Hmmmm. Cuz they BENEFIT from it not being around?

BTW, don't see you praising any lefties either in this forum. Pot meet kettle.

Are you still steaming cuz Alberto Gonzalez had to resign during the Bush presidency?

Permit me to say, guys like you need to stay inside your comfort zone...that is the reason for your meaningless one liners, and your rejection of things you know nothing about...and your need to project your behavior on others to put them down. You really are pretty messed up. Good luck with that.

DieHardBrownsFan

Heil Schopenhauer.

MLD Woody

Steve,

I ended up taking this quiz http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/ while looking at what you posted and surfing the interwebz. I got 10/13 right. There is a breakdown at the end of who got stuff right and who didn't.

I also took an IQ test and did pretty well. Ha! lol

MLD Woody

@westside-steve said:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/22/science-say-gop-voters-better-informed-open-minded/#!

WSS

I'm not sure what that means in reference to what I posted. Also, I don't really care about Dems or Reps. I think aligning yourself with a political party and then blindly following it is dumb.

Also, I can find a bunch of studies that people on this site wouldn't like...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/ that is CNN referencing a study showing liberals and atheists have a higher IQ

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract that is the abstract to a study stating the low IQ is linked to racism and socially conservative ideals

So I mean, take them for what you will.