What If Fox News Viewers Watched CNN Instead?(bloomberg.com)
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What If Fox News Viewers Watched CNN Instead?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-03/what-if-fox-news-viewers-watched-cnn-instead
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The sample size and details of the study are not reported and neither is the contrary question. This reads as disparaging to FOX or a CNN advertisement.
Perhaps by accident the UK ended up with very strong impartiality rules for TV. You can be as opinionated as you like in newspapers - but TV must be impartial: two people being interviewed with contrasting views or the interviewer has to take a counter argument. No politicians reading the news or giving views unquestioned without someone else with a different view later etc. There are always arguments about if the stations are going too far or not enough - there were lots of complaints that climate change deniers have been given a platform when the vast majority (of public and scientists) accepted it as true.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...
Perhaps the US should have a channel that shows alternate 15 minutes of Fox and CNN?
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...
Perhaps the US should have a channel that shows alternate 15 minutes of Fox and CNN?
That explains so much. I was watching a show once discussing the obesity epidemic and a member of the crowd related her support for healthy obesity, which the announcer straight away refuted and then asked a diverse panel for their opinions. I was a little surprised at first, where in contrast in north american television you might not see someone get challenged on a subject like "healthy obesity" as a concept, and especially not to an actively obese persons face on broadcast. Part of me wondered if GB was more direct customarily but this makes sense.
Disclaimer: I do not believe in obesity being healthy but generally respect peoples choices and agency. I felt the need to add this because putting quotes on the term and not putting quotes on the term felt like lending support one way or the other outside of my personal opinion.
Disclaimer: I do not believe in obesity being healthy but generally respect peoples choices and agency. I felt the need to add this because putting quotes on the term and not putting quotes on the term felt like lending support one way or the other outside of my personal opinion.
Although GB News are having a bash at changing that (or they would do if anyone watched) and RT did until they went too far and got shut down.
I've never watched GB News (only seen clips) and don't quite understand how they can get away with it, but I believe its because they read out/play/show viewers comments.
I have my own opinions and methodology on consuming modern corporate news. I just skim all the sites regardless of their political leanings and just go into it assuming they all have multiple agendas on multiple levels. If one finds a topic interesting enough one can cherry pick that which can be verified and verify it discarding the rest while continuously asking oneself what might motivate a company to talk about this topic in this particular method of presentation?
If I am really bored I might rewrite the news article the way I think it should have been presented often resulting in an article that is a tiny fraction of the original size. For extra fun I try to imagine what the "bad lip reading" youtube site would make them say.
If I am really bored I might rewrite the news article the way I think it should have been presented often resulting in an article that is a tiny fraction of the original size. For extra fun I try to imagine what the "bad lip reading" youtube site would make them say.
It'd be a funny experiment to swap the Fox and CNN feeds over (changing the on screen graphics etc) and see if the viewers noticed.
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