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antigone382 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 09:17 PM
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15. Nobody's talking about censorship.
Edited on Fri Jan-28-05 09:18 PM by antigone382
I'm talking about a media that actively distorts and misrepresents the truth, while claiming to be unbiased, for two reasons:

1. economic interest

2. ratings.

I don't want to stop anyone from watching what they want to watch, or hide the truth from anybody. But Fox News doesn't tell the truth, at least not in a "fair and balanced" way. If Fox News would openly admit to being biased, I wouldn't really care what they did or who watched them. The liberal radio station, Air America, openly admits to being liberal. Why don't conservative media outlets openly admit their own bias? What harm can be done in telling the truth, unless they have something to hide?

Edited for grammar.

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