Patricia Andrews
Media, Politics & Society
September 8th, 2010
Compare/Contrast News channels.
In my research to find out how news channels viewed and showed their stories. I watched Bill Oreilly from Fox News, as he is a strong Republican. For the other side, I watched the liberal MSNBC show with Chris Matthews. Each channel definitely had their own view on the news subjects, and enjoyed pointing fingers at the other channel. While I watched the shows to view how they generally acted, A common subject which each channel talked about was the Presidential It's a mid-term evaluation for Obama. I have heard about the strong bias and battles that each channel has to promote their own political views. Little did I know that talking trash about the other channels correspondents takes up a lot of the show. Mainly on Bill Orielly had guests on which the main point seemed to be that liberals are stupid. The point of the the Republican side is that Obama has not been a good president, and that liberals put all their eggs in one basket, and failed. On the Obama subject from MSNBC I they showed a video of giving a speech/excuse. It was of Obama saying that everyone is unhappy with the economy, including himself and everyone is working on it. While MSNBC seemed to be slightly supporting Obama and talking about ideas. Fox just bad mouthed liberals. I wrote down some of the things each side said during the show. During The Oreilly Factor, Dennis Miller said, "general consensus of America is we all don't like Obama.", followed by no information or statistics. On a separate subject Bill Oreilly briefly talked about Gore, saying multiple times that he was a dufus, putts and could not get anything done. The starting headline for a Fox a topic was, "Crazy ideas from the far left". Next Oreilly mentions how liberals "don't understand how dumb they sound". Which each channel has in common is trash talking, MSNBC seemed to match Fox with their own low blows and trash talking. During a interview on MSNBC Governor Rendall stated that "The Republican party is now dominated by crazy, fruitloop, wackos." Watching these shows really want to make me watch suggested and supposedly non-bias news channels such as BBC. MSNBC and Fox really didn't give that much information on the topics they were discussing. Each channel would go off on a idea or trash talking completely overshadowing the news stories. For these big name channels they are definitely promoting their views, not through helpful information, but through talking trash.
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