Dear Media: Pick a Side!

Does the media tend to lean more towards a liberal side or a more conservative side? Well that's hard to determine based on where you go to for your news. In my eyes its nearly impossible to receive solid news, because whether its the writer themselves or the person who owns it, they're going to show you or tell you whatever they decide. It's truly a struggle to find someone who is not bias at all. Since everyone has different views of what seems like the right thing to do, everyone will have a different say on certain matters. As we either hear, see or live through these events we call "news", we receive the news and often ask "is that right?" or "is this how it happened?". Now to me, its hard for me to determine exactly what you mean by mainstream news. Clearly not every person reads the Herald or watches channel 5 news. In a country filled with leaders whom either are liberals or conservatives, why is in so hard to find news from a third party?

When speaking on the liberals side of the news, a majority of people aren't sure as to how to determine whether the news the are getting is bias. Well that is only determined by the other party to accuse them of the biasness. Major news channel companies accused of being liberal by the conservatives are CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN & MSNBC. Now I'm sure we all at one point or another have watched these channels, but if you truly listen to all these major networks reporting on similar subjects, you begin to see the similarities in the news they post. Many conservatives believe the "big-boys" of big business pay the editors and reports, to post the news they seem fit. Now that doesn't seem fair, because that means the owners of the networks show us the news they want us to see. They twist and turn many stories that hit the hot-button issues, including subjects such as race, gun control, abortion and of course money spending.

On the Conservative side of things, or the republican side, the company has the most attention for being conservative is FOX News. Like the channels I named above, FOX news was under heat from the public after being called to one sided. A good example was during the Bush administration, as you could tell they had high support for the republican party (which Bush is), while companies like CNN and ABC often bashed the Bush administration. This is different today, as Obama being a democrat, FOX News often bashes him and his administration, while tending to receive positive reactions from the liberal news groups. The thing is, this is more then just one-sided television news, its over the radios, on the Internet and in papers. In my eyes the news today that I see the gist of tends to lean more towards the conservative side of things. Me tending to be more of a conservative I agree with about 55% of the things they say. Saying that, it really gets to me, because during the research for this blog, I noticed myself getting my information from these biased websites. I think its a shame how hard it is to find a news station with some actually middle ground.

Sources :
http://www.opednews.com/

http://rightbias.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/