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Media Bias and the Problem with Talk Show Hosts
I listen to both Right Wing and Left Wing radio talk shows during drive time. Both sides accuse the Mass Media, of which they are each components, of media bias. It happens that the Right insists the media is biased Left, and the Left insists the media is biased Right. Obviously, then, the media may well not be biased but rather is shoddy and diluted.

I read articles from both sides, too. Sure some so-called reporters might be biased. Just as sure some reporters are even competent, but on balance, reporting is like Swiss cheese, full of holes replete with omissions, intentionally and otherwise. Editors are complicit in this, too.

Talk show hosts on both sides, generally presumed to be preaching to their respective choirs, making all sorts of false and misleading statement as well as statements out of context with poorly research support (or lack thereof).

The way I attempt to get a fuller picture is to read and listen to both perspectives. Of course this is not an optimal approach because the world is not 2-dimensional. I know most people are guilty of Group Think and tend to flock like sheep to an ideological base. I also know that most people tend to single-source there news or severely restrict their input in an attempt to diminish cognitive dissonance, I suppose.

Do you feel the media is slanted or biased? If so, which way? How do you get your news?

Well,

first of all,its no use listening to various channels if the listener is stuck in his or her own bias....

secondly , be sure there truely are differences between sources.....
its no use to listen to different people but all of the same wing......

And now the question:
Do you feel the media is slanted or biased?

All media is.Nothing wrong with that.

So, be sure to get multiple views on events,so that you will be able to form your own balanced opinion.

However,

to stretch the point,

Would you seriously listen to Al Jazeera?
And give their and alike opinions a serious chance?
Would you be willing to consider to change your opinion or sides,for that matter?


Well,

there are always boundries.........

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