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Originally Posted by skarlorn
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Since before the election, I've followed FOX and CNN on Facebook. (I check some other news sources as well but for the sake of this thread I'm sticking with those 2).
CNN is more biased towards the left than FOX is towards the right.
This was very surprising to me, as a coastal denizen of the West educated by colleges. Perhaps it's due to the current President's loathing of CNN, but CNN these days is constantly putting an over-the-top negative spin on the Trump Administration.
FOX, on the other hand, I would say is marginally pro-Right. I say this because they will often feature prominent Republicans and make them seem like the only voice of reason more often than giving equilateral coverage to both left and right. However, FOX does give space to opinion's from the left, anti-trump coverage, etc.
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I used to "comparison shop" Fox years ago, and they were
very biased. I don't read/watch them very often now, but they do seem to have gotten better about that over time, plus they've made other (surprisingly) good moves like firing O'Reilly.
As for CNN, I read them regularly, and while they're certainly not as bad as Fox used to be, they definitely have a slant now. To be fair the whole situation with the president directly attacking them is kind of unprecedented, but even so they're taking it way too personally. Their whole skipping of the White House X-mas party thing is a perfect example: it doesn't matter how biased the news source is, even it it's the president himself, the news itself needs to (try to) stay neutral.