It’s Actually Quite a Clever Joke
Here’s a picture of a Fox News poll asking “What is the most biased news outlet in America?” To paraphrase an old proverb, this is the pot asking which appliance is the most black.
Things to note in the picture: first, Fox News is not an option for the “most biased news outlet.” Second, the poll is being presented as a part of the O’Reilly Factor web page. The frightening part is that there is a large viewership who will go to this page, see this poll and honestly believe that Fox News and O’Reilly are unbiased and that the classic liberal media boogy-men presented as poll options are the real media evil.
Every media outlet is biased - it’s the nature of the beast. The modern 24/7 networks are divided into two types of coverage. There’s the daily coverage, which is basically a newsfeed, and there’s the prime time coverage, which is dominated by personalities. All of the personalities are biased to some degree or another, but many of the networks do a reasonable job keeping their daily coverage fair. The one that fails epicly on both counts, though, is Fox News. Now the most biased show on the most biased network is asking who’s the most biased news outlet - it’s funny.
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