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In reply to the discussion: Do you think there is any chance that a liberal cable news network will emerge? [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)44. Not "fair" but TRUTHFUL
There's false fairness, in which two sides, one sane and the other nutty, are given equal time, but there's also a third and fourth side that nobody mentions.
I want news outlets that find and report that third and fourth side IF AND ONLY IF they're logically and factually defensible, and EVEN IF they go against the conventional first and second side.
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Do you think there is any chance that a liberal cable news network will emerge? [View all]
KurtNYC
Nov 2012
OP
Current is already out there. More of us should watch. Maybe Ed Schultz will end up on
brewens
Nov 2012
#1
But isn't the echo chamber created by Fox the very thing that turned all Republicans into idiots?
Squinch
Nov 2012
#3
There is no such thing as "news, without any commentary at all..." The story selection itself
Romulox
Nov 2012
#21
The "filter" is applied before the story get to you. You don't see the stories on TV that TV doesn't
Romulox
Nov 2012
#25
I'm not questioning your sources. But they don't include "news, without any commentary at all...".
Romulox
Nov 2012
#28
Air America just couldn't compete with the deep corporate pockets of the Clear Channel
Cleita
Nov 2012
#46
I do not want a "liberal" cable station. I want a genuinely fair one
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2012
#10
We need a populist network - the people are more interested in that than liberalism, per se.
reformist2
Nov 2012
#37
Free Speech TV is good but it has less distribution than even Current has.
totodeinhere
Nov 2012
#52