Smaller Thoughts

The News Channels are Biased. We Get It. Stop Bitching.

I have seen so many posts on Tumblr from people whipped up in righteous anger because they perceive that one news network or another is giving unfair positive or negative converage to their particular political party or pet cause. The most recent example being the “over coverage” of the Tea Party protests by Fox News yesterday.

News flash everyone:

Fox News is a conservative news network. Fox’s primary audience is mid-to-right leaning America. They know this. Their advertisers know this. As such, Fox will cover stories that appeal to their viewership. This is not wrong, this is America, this is free speech, this is freedom of the press.

In the same vein - CNN and MSNBC are liberal news networks. This is also fine. I know that because of the general left-ward leaning of most Tumblr users, Fox News gets the most heat around here. But recognize that other networks are biased too.

So what’s the bottom line? Watch whatever news network you feel delivers the coverage best suited to you. If any particular network’s programming does not suite your taste, just watch a different network. They’ll all break any major story - you won’t miss anything earth shattering, I promise.