Political News Network???

[Thinkton]

I'am just curious where do all of you watch your political news coverage?

As a college student from Utah they always have CNN on. From January to June they always rooting for Barack Obama all the time on CNN. When John Mccain is on CNN gave him less coverage.

Now I'am at home since June and today I still watch CNN and since the conventions CNN are somewhat bashing Mccain/Palin then they do with Obama/Biden.

I hate CNN and Wolf Blitzer and the one hot chick Campbell. When I watch CNN I get the feeling I'am watching a democratic liberal news network.

I watch Fox News Network because they are fair and balance. They cover both sides of the election and they don't root for any of the candidates.

 

[MattBearPig]

www.disinfo.com

 

[Hobgoblin]

I try to watch both CNN and FOX to get both sides but the news anchors on FOX grate on my nerves. Something about them just bugs me. I dont think the CNN anchors are as obnoxious.

 

[coreymb16]

Fox News maybe balanced, but their not always fair. They are from a conservative standpoint. Do not like Sean Hannity.

CNN gives you the facts.

MSNBC is the same as Fox News from liberal standpoint
I watch only Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

 

[Marx]

I try to watch all of the major channels. (ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News.) However, I can only take FOX News in small doses.

 

[lazur]

Fox News maybe balanced, but their not always fair. They are from a conservative standpoint. Do not like Sean Hannity.

CNN gives you the facts.

MSNBC is the same as Fox News from liberal standpoint
I watch only Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

None of the news networks only 'give you the facts.' They are all biased in their own ways, and they all go out of their way to make their political position play a part in their news reporting practices, and this absolutely includes CNN.

 

[bunk]

I usually just watch MSNBC. I like Chuck Todd. I don't usually bother with too much of the discussion though, I just want to see whatever they're covering. I've noticed FOX often has a crappy looking video feed for some reason.

 

[The Senator]

Lately, I have been getting my news from Politico and The Washington Post. The media's slobbering over Sarah Palin turned me off of televised news a few weeks ago, and I just haven't had the patience or the stomach to go back.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Ah, crap. I thought this thread was about what we thought was the "most political" - as in "most biased" - network. I voted before I read the first post. Man I'm off the ball today.

 

[Thinkton]

Ah, crap. I thought this thread was about what we thought was the "most political" - as in "most biased" - network. I voted before I read the first post. Man I'm off the ball today.

u mad?

I will be watching CNN on election day.

 

[The Senator]

I watched MSNBC's debate coverage.

Weren't Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews supposed to not be allowed anywhere near important election coverage?

I didn't mind Chris Matthews, because I admire and respect him. But Keith Olbermann's *****ebaggery made me want to not watch cable news again.

 

[souvlaki]

I watch Fox News Network because they are fair and balance. They cover both sides of the election and they don't root for any of the candidates.

What's up with this? I didn't think there were actually people that thought this. I mean, I watch MSNBC quite a bit but I'm fully aware they are biased as hell. I assumed people that watched Fox News realized this as well. Anyhow, in response to the question, if I'm watching network news I usually go back and forth between MSNBC and CNN, though I've watched MSNBC a little more recently simply because their commentators don't bore me to tears. Overall though, I get most of my news from NPR and various online news sources. Network news for me is nothing more than entertainment.

 

[Matt]

Newspapers, mostly.

 

[souvlaki]

I watched MSNBC's debate coverage.

Weren't Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews supposed to not be allowed anywhere near important election coverage?

I didn't mind Chris Matthews, because I admire and respect him. But Keith Olbermann's *****ebaggery made me want to not watch cable news again.

It wasn't post debate coverage technically. MSNBC simply moved their time slots to follow the debate. David Gregory handled the post debate coverage.

 

[bunk]

They weren't supposed to be forced into a position of having to be generic unbiased anchors. And so they were allowed to just conduct their own shows as normal, just at a different time slot obviously. Here's the thing; once the debate wraps up, any commentary will be biased anyway. Unless you're merely reading the lines spoken by the candidates off a page or replaying clips, it's going to have opinion injected into the conversation. So if it weren't Olbermann and Mathews' personal opinion, it would have to be someone else's. I guess MSNBC just decided it was best to have them operate in the usual format they and the audience is comfortable with them in.

 

[comicgirl]

I'am just curious where do all of you watch your political news coverage?

As a college student from Utah they always have CNN on. From January to June they always rooting for Barack Obama all the time on CNN. When John Mccain is on CNN gave him less coverage.

Now I'am at home since June and today I still watch CNN and since the conventions CNN are somewhat bashing Mccain/Palin then they do with Obama/Biden.

I hate CNN and Wolf Blitzer and the one hot chick Campbell. When I watch CNN I get the feeling I'am watching a democratic liberal news network.

I watch Fox News Network because they are fair and balance. They cover both sides of the election and they don't root for any of the candidates.

Yeah....Hannity, et al are the very object of "fair and balanced"....

 

[Hole Shot]

I flip through them all, I try to make a point of watching O'Reilly though because he's a jerk and I find it very entertaining.

Yeah....Hannity, et al are the very object of "fair and balanced"....

You're never going to win an argument about Fox being right wing biased if you use Sean Hannity as your example. Sounds crazy but it's true.

 

[danoyse]

I can't stomach Fox (I worked for their NY affiliate once, so the hatred runs deep), so if I'm watching a cable news network I'll usually watch CNN. They're biased, but not as blatantly as Fox. I watched the debate on PBS last night.

A lot of times I'll just Google the candidate's name and read the articles that come up just to get differing opinions from both sides.

And when it's all over I just watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert...they bring sanity to it all.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I can't stomach Fox (I worked for their NY affiliate once, so the hatred runs deep), so if I'm watching a cable news network I'll usually watch CNN. They're biased, but not as blatantly as Fox. I watched the debate on PBS last night.

A lot of times I'll just Google the candidate's name and read the articles that come up just to get differing opinions from both sides.

And when it's all over I just watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert...they bring sanity to it all.

What happened at the NY affiliate?

 

[danoyse]

What happened at the NY affiliate?

It was just a lousy place to work. I started in a trainee position, which is basically a glorified intern who works full-time for $5 an hour for 6 months. I wound up getting hired for what was still lousy pay, as a sales assistant where we got treated like kids. I think 9 sales assistants quit in 18 months. I remember when I quit hearing they were going investigate the department.

It was just an awful company to work for. I left it for another media company, and I've actually been there for 10 years now. So much better.

 

[Hole Shot]

It was just a lousy place to work. I started in a trainee position, which is basically a glorified intern who works full-time for $5 an hour for 6 months. I wound up getting hired for what was still lousy pay, as a sales assistant where we got treated like kids. I think 9 sales assistants quit in 18 months. I remember when I quit hearing they were going investigate the department.

It was just an awful company to work for. I left it for another media company, and I've actually been there for 10 years now. So much better.

so are you an advertising account executive? I ask because I'm a media buyer.

 

[Excel]

Depends whose talking. Not everybody from Fox is horrible, even Karl Rove is tolerable at the moment.

 

[danoyse]

so are you an advertising account executive? I ask because I'm a media buyer.

Nope, don't work in sales anymore. Don't miss it, either.

 

[Marx]

Depends whose talking. Not everybody from Fox is horrible, even Karl Rove is tolerable at the moment.

That's only because Karl Rove has come over to the light side of the force. I strongly suspect he'll return to the dark side on November 5th.

 

[Thinkton]

CNN is not really live tv.