FOX News vs. MSNBC in Terms of Bias

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    This graph is part of a study from Journalism.org, verumserum.com, and emandp.com to see which major news network was more biased in the 2008 election. FOX News or MSNBC? As you can see FOX was more fair and balanced on McCain and it was actually slightly more negative and neutral on him than positive. However, MSNBC had barely anything positive on their channel on McCain, and neutral was not so high either. Instead he was seen as largely negative on the major liberal network with 75% of their stories on him being negative. Now lets go to Obama. Obama had equally positive stories as McCain did on FOX. As a matter of fact the coverage on McCain and Obama by FOX is rather similar, but MSNBC was barely negative on Obama while they were strongly positive and neutral on him! I guess that shows who the most biased network is.
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    This is why I don't watch either of these and instead watch ABC. Hell, they are so unbiased, I don't even know which side they agree with.
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    Actually they apparently did the study with CNN to and that more fair and balanced than these, but for some reason they never put it on the graph.
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    I watch CNN as well, but not as much, (don't have it at my house, only at my dad's house).
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    ABC just kisses the president's (whoever that happen's to be) ass.
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    Well I have never seen them get offensive to anyone really, but perhaps they are scared to be accused as biased so they think pleasing everyone works out.
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    ABC isn't particularly bias, but they are undoubtely left-leaning.
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    I'm not terribly surprised. The Republican and Democratic race in the 2008 election was remarkably clean, and Fox News being so connected with the Republicans, it isn't surprising that they laid off. It was part of the strategy. MSNBC is very left but not terribly linked with the Dems, they're more autonomous.
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    We should make are own news show, just saying.
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    The NKVD news probaly wouldn't be very popular in America... or anywhere else.
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    Maybe we can broadcast it in Venezuela.
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    Well then let's call it the equality news or something like that.
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    And that is why we watch CNN.
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    ABC is where it's at sucka.
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    They never said CNN was not biased, just that it was the most fair and balanced between it, FOX, and MSNBC with MSNBC being most biased.
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    But Fox also has some quite incorrect news.
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    I will not doubt say that is true, which is why it is clearly not fair and balanced, it is just more fair and balanced than MSNBC and less than CNN.

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