RE: ny nick -
“in otherwords, when I was a child, news organizations tried to educate and inform their viewers on the events of the day. Not anymore. Fox changed all that.”
I would second that your blaming of Fox is in itself “reported with a strong political bias.”
I give you Howard Fineman, no ditto-head he by a long shot…
“Still, the notion of a neutral, non-partisan mainstream press was, to me at least, worth holding onto. Now it’s pretty much dead, at least as the public sees things. The seeds of its demise were sown with the best of intentions in the late 1960s, when the (American Mainstream Media Party) AMMP was founded in good measure (and ironically enough) by CBS. Old folks may remember the moment: Walter Cronkite stepped from behind the podium of presumed objectivity to become an outright foe of the war in Vietnam. Later, he and CBS’s star White House reporter, Dan Rather, went to painstaking lengths to make Watergate understandable to viewers, which helped seal Richard Nixon’s fate as the first president to resign.
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6813945/
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Fox is largely a result of, not the cause of, the phenomena you speak of.
