ShyGuy

BBC World News

Adlerdriver

Nope - try again. That’s just a more polite version of CNN with an accent.

WhistlePig

The questionairre is only used to help identify candidates that have been overlooked in the legacy search process, it doesn't take the place of an interview or qualifications. Tucker knows this, he also knows how to stoke the fears of his audience for ratings.

METO Guido

As regular BBC viewers are aware, it carries a left centric, socialist bias. It also covers the Mideast & Africa regions far more consistently & intensively than rivals here. Like the others, they rely heavily on opinion based commentary over expensive, boots on the ground, investigative journalism. Mainstream news revenue account execs steering content in a competition for ratings share. Many those still watching traditional news programs increasingly choosing what they want to hear over anything else.

Strip this news item from your prejudice about its source, the story in question has merit.

badflaps

MSNBC lost me with Pruitt's moisturizer lotion, surely there must be more relevant news.l

tomgoodman

He shoulda’ used alligator grease, like the Karankawas did here in the swamp. It repels mosquitos, and reporters too.

Flightcap

Every news agency out there has bias. We already know there will be bias involved regardless of the agency that reported the story. The question to be asked is whether the story has basis in fact. That's the more relevant discussion.

aiir

I have a twitter account mostly to keep up with politics and world news. Half of my sources are left leaning and the other half are right leaning. This is the best method that I’ve found to remain in the loop without being unconsciously swayed.

Anyone who religiously follows a specific source of news without giving serious thought and consideration to the other side is doing themselves a disservice. I can pick a religious follower of either FOX or CNN off the street and before they utter their first world I’ll know every point of their argument and I can almost bet that not a single original thought will come out of their mouth. They are not keeping up with the news, they are keeping up with a specific viewpoint. It is in fact a sad state of affairs when our news outlets are so polarized, but I guess it is what it is. I blame a lack of education, most people are so uneducated, it’s amazing. They do very little reading, therefore those whom are very well read have an easy time swaying them left or right while they sit patiently like a blade of grass waiting for the wind to blow on them.

METO Guido

Troublesome hurdle. How do you report when your dispatch is primarily a PR entertainment piece?

By comparison, something discussed at length in print, the role of the press during the last period of transformational social adjustment (late 60's) makes today's media effort look pretty listless. Bias is present always. But the fight then, IMHO, had less to do with pretentiousness over dogma & ideology than commitment to uncovering the truth, wherever a story went.

kevbo

Very few people like being bewildered, most find it frightening. That is what it takes to learn anything new once you become an adult.