boneyard bill
Veteran Member
The implications of this article are that the way to build an audience in the news business is to promote (or slant) news in ways that fit the biases of your target audience. Of course, Rush Limbaugh figured that out a long time ago. Fox News quickly followed. Today MSNBC is having some success with a very liberal bias while the very bland and more neutral-sounding CNN is heading for the dust bin.
But I can't think that is good news. The American media has never been free of bias, but now bias has become just about all we can expect. Personally, I don't think television news is worth watching and newspapers are scarcely better. I get my new almost entirely from internet. And, of course, I generally go to news sites that I expect to re-enforce my biases. However, I have also changed my views dramatically as a result of what I have learned on the internet. The difference is that on the internet the sites that re-enforce my biases are still nuanced in different ways and this leads me to looking into sites that I might have previously dismissed. It's sort of like all sites are losers but the they make it up in volume.
But I can't think that is good news. The American media has never been free of bias, but now bias has become just about all we can expect. Personally, I don't think television news is worth watching and newspapers are scarcely better. I get my new almost entirely from internet. And, of course, I generally go to news sites that I expect to re-enforce my biases. However, I have also changed my views dramatically as a result of what I have learned on the internet. The difference is that on the internet the sites that re-enforce my biases are still nuanced in different ways and this leads me to looking into sites that I might have previously dismissed. It's sort of like all sites are losers but the they make it up in volume.