Kristy's Blog

OK, so Fox is the least biased? It’s my opinion that all TV news should be avoided – it is ALL biased. There are so many ways to influence how the viewer absorbs the news: the inflection in tone of the newscaster, the background music, the lead-in story, the ticker-tape of news at the bottom, the video used, the background graphics.

It’s also funny how TV/cable news brings up so many trivial stories that I never hear about because I am only reading. People are so aghast that I’ve not heard about Sarah Palin being interviewed in front of a turkey slaughter. I mean REALLY, who cares. Is that really NEWS? Or that Deepak Chopra is now some kind of authority on the India bombings because he’s Indian?

Not that my news absorption style is better than anyone else’s, but I just read the basic generic news stories coming off the AP/UP wire. There is really no bias, just a paragraph of what happened and when. No analysis of the event. It’s left to my own conclusions.

I’m probably one of the few people who never turned on the TV to learn what happened during the invasion of Iraq. I can’t stand the way the newscasters suddenly turn to each other and say, “What do you think?” when they are stuck for content. I mean who cares what the newscasters think of current events? Or the writers of the show? I certainly don’t.

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