I'm done with FOX.

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Originally Posted by tnip23

....other networks would generally ignore.

I'll avoid just adding to the pot on the rest of your post (which I agree with mostly), and instead focus on this one line. Someone else (too lazy to read back and find it) mentioned something to the effect of "the news not reported was just as important as what they do report."

How very, very, VERY true this is. We can all come up with examples, so I won't cross this into a political discussion, however its really a simple principle that most people overlook when discussion a network's bias. What do they NOT report on? Clearly if MSNBC never reports on a positive story out of Iraq, then viewers have no idea to what degree and ratio positive VS negative things happen. Or if you hit up a news source that only reports the positive things, again viewers have no idea where things stand on the big pictures, positive vs negative.

Bottom line, there's no easy solution for this one, and I think is much more indicative of the TRUE bias of a news source. It's easy to judge a bias by what they say. But much harder to locate and identify a hidden bias, based on what they DONT say.