Saturday, August 23, 2008

Nope.

There are several differences between American media outlets and international outlets.  The major difference has to do with agenda.  American outlets present a more obvious bias for certain political parties and moral values than international outlets do.  For example, Fox News has an obvious conservative bias while CNN has a liberal bias.


The reason for this is that each outlet has an agenda or something it is trying to accomplish by supporting one view point instead of another.  The motivation for a viewpoint could be money, political support to attract a certain audience, or in Fox News' case, supporting one political party and not another.  When reporting on American news, international outlets do not have as much as a bias.  I do understand that everybody has a bias, so I am in no way saying they are fair and equal, but international outlets do a better job of being objective.  Being an international outlet, however, supporting a political party with better foreign policy would be in its best interest.


Both CNN and Fox News have gone under fire for being biased, the BBC has had its fair share of fingers pointed at it.  In recent news, the BBC was accused of promoting "left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment."


In my critical thinking class we learned about "bullshit."   "Bullshit" is an argument without the concern of the truth of a belief.  What I am getting at is, no matter how fair and balanced something is (a.k.a. how true something is), there are always people that will argue (bullshit) the opposite point.

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