Government spies on reporters using WW1 Espionage act

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

FOX News, fair and balanced?

And everyone knows that Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Wikipedia are never correct and always lie.

It seems to be a common game to dismiss anything by anybody we don't like.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And everyone knows that Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Wikipedia are never correct and always lie.

It seems to be a common game to dismiss anything by anybody we don't like.

Pretty much.

Six or seven months ago, by reputation alone I would NEVER listen or read ANYTHING from fox news. Honestly as domestic news sources go, I only followed CNN because I thought they were the least bias or most impartial. It was during the gun debate that I saw information and articles appear on CNN that I knew were either skewed or just plain wrong, that I start questioning it and started looking at fox news to see what else was being said.

Since then, whenever i want to check the news, I look at both, filter out the bias that both have and make my own decision. It is my thought however, that most people do what I used to do. Only look at one news source and dismiss anything else by reputation.

There is no fair and balanced, impartial or unbiased news source. They're all skewed. If you want fair and balanced, your going to have to read things that might not tickle your ears, and compare that to a news source that may tickles your ears. "Fair and balanced" is in between. Until you make yourself look at both ends of the bias spectrum, your never going to arrive at some semblance of the truth of any given story making its rounds in the news.

[August]

So let's assume the reports are true. We now have two instances of the administration attempting to muzzle the press.

Between this and the other recent abuses of power I think the Nixon comparisons are quite accurate.