(October 23, 2012 at 8:56 pm)Polaris Wrote: Obama probably won and if he wins again, we have a fourth consecutive term of Bush policy. America seems to be even worse than Russia with its politics.Either way you'd have a fourth consecutive term of Bush policies.
Also, I agree with Tino; media bias exists in pretty much any media company. That isn't to say that all media companies lean one particular way all the time (even Fox News had/has liberal and libertarian commentators), but speaking generally, there is an obvious lean most of the time.
From an outsider's perspective (i.e. I only catch glimpses of American TV), Fox News is clearly more right-wing, whilst MSNBC is more left-wing (Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow spring to mind). The others are somewhat centrist, but often lean left. I'd say MSNBC is as far left a "mainstream" broadcaster gets.
Not that there is anything necessarily wrong with bias; as long as you are open about it. Fox News does this to some degree, but very tacitly (Google "fox news admits bias" and you get plenty of links). Likewise, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow as far as I am aware do not hide the fact that their shows are biased towards the left. Most people have an agenda, and if you have a particular audience you want to market yourself towards, go for it. At the end of the day, the consumer chooses the product.
