I read an article in WND today that discusses the activism of a Los Angeles artist. She displayed a mocking billboard in California and has created an accompanying website suggesting the media bias of Fox News.
While I respect this person’s right to be an activist, I can’t help but think that this is not done from an altruistic spirit of political activism, but simply to shamelessly promote the artist’s own work. Seems like a good capitalistic business model to display a provocative billboard with the intent to stir up national exposure so that you can increase web traffic to your site. I got sucked in.
Perhaps Karen Fiorito should either
- Stop worrying about Fox News and watch the other 150+ media outlets that have their own bias; or
- Read scholarly articles such as “A Measure of Media Bias” which attempts to provide a rather objective quantifiable analysis of media bias rather than, as the authors suggest, only providing “anecdotes” and “untested theories.”
Perhaps the problem liberals have is not with actual news reporting shows on Fox News like Shepherd Smith’s, which simply provides the news. Instead, liberals seemingly dislike the “opinion” shows on Fox News and a few other media outlets that may provide a forum for right-leaning voices, unlike the media outlets previously mentioned.
We can have a debate all day about media bias. What you consider bias I may not and vice versa. Bottom line - all media is biased simply based on what producers choose to air.
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