That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a bias. Bias is first created by the stories that are selected, just as librarians first ban books by what they buy. For instance, the misbehavior of a Democrat might be featured, but would never appear on broadcast or CNN, therefore leading Democrats to assume the worst about Fox.
"A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19, 2010, found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network. Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32039.html#ixzz0e0VC5VeX
Last night on Glenn Beck (who now owns his own media company and is no longer on Fox) the artist who has caused quite a stir by depicting Obama hanging on a cross with a halo, crown and torn veil tried to explain his reasons—he thinks the media isn’t fair to Obama. Surely he isn’t thinking of the main stream media which never report anything negative unless it is a HUGE story.
But he also showed some of his other pieces—like the angry face of his brother-in-law. He said this man had been quite reasonable until he started watching Fox News, now he can’t have a political conversation with him. That may mean the BIL doesn’t agree with the artist all the time and now has more information. Glenn asked a few perceptive, probing questions, and they shook hands and agreed to disagree.
The artist (forgotten his name) said he never thought Beck would be so reasonable, or that they would have so many ideas in common (Beck is a libertarian who strongly believes in freedom of speech). When asked if he’d ever watched Beck’s show, (when it was on Fox) he admitted he’d only seen snippets filtered through leftist sites. Although he doesn’t sell his originals, he does sell products made from his images, so Beck gave him a lot of free publicity.
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