Fox News vs. MSNBC: Opinionated Reporting
Fox News vs. MSNBC: Opinionated Reporting
While reviewing both Fox News and MSNBC, I tried both to find comparative narration in opinion and objective based reporting, and found it quite difficult. Whether on TV or the internet sites for the respective news outlets, it was a strenuous activity to find reports that provided commentary on an exact issue. I noticed that several times, when on the websites, one would have articles surrounding what they projected as an important news bulletin, while the other would have no mention of such details, no matter how deeply I searched.
An example, provided by MSNBC, was a report titled, “Reid pledges vote on bill to protect gay, transgender employment rights.” MSNBC, with their agenda towards the more liberal, hard-left view, provided several articles on the subject. When searching through the Fox News catalog, with the strong right, conservative agenda, I was unable to find any mention of such an event. Even on the home pages of the respective news outlets, there was obvious bias just in the listing of their titles and main headlines.
On the MSNBC homepage (www.nbcnews.com), the word democrat, or some variation of it, was mentioned 9 times, while variations of republican was only listed twice. In both instances of the word republican, it was in a headline with a negative connotation, such as stating that Republicans voting against Social Security. On the Fox News webpage (www.foxnews.com), republican was mentioned 11 times, with democrats only mentioned four times, and all of those four were in negative connotations. One such example is refuting that a democrat representative “falsely claimed” that no republican voted for Social Security.
One of the main articles focused on this weekend was that of the American government spying on some of it’s closest allies. The United States National Security Agency has been under fire lately for it’s spying on some of the United
While reviewing both Fox News and MSNBC, I tried both to find comparative narration in opinion and objective based reporting, and found it quite difficult. Whether on TV or the internet sites for the respective news outlets, it was a strenuous activity to find reports that provided commentary on an exact issue. I noticed that several times, when on the websites, one would have articles surrounding what they projected as an important news bulletin, while the other would have no mention of such details, no matter how deeply I searched.
An example, provided by MSNBC, was a report titled, “Reid pledges vote on bill to protect gay, transgender employment rights.” MSNBC, with their agenda towards the more liberal, hard-left view, provided several articles on the subject. When searching through the Fox News catalog, with the strong right, conservative agenda, I was unable to find any mention of such an event. Even on the home pages of the respective news outlets, there was obvious bias just in the listing of their titles and main headlines.
On the MSNBC homepage (www.nbcnews.com), the word democrat, or some variation of it, was mentioned 9 times, while variations of republican was only listed twice. In both instances of the word republican, it was in a headline with a negative connotation, such as stating that Republicans voting against Social Security. On the Fox News webpage (www.foxnews.com), republican was mentioned 11 times, with democrats only mentioned four times, and all of those four were in negative connotations. One such example is refuting that a democrat representative “falsely claimed” that no republican voted for Social Security.
One of the main articles focused on this weekend was that of the American government spying on some of it’s closest allies. The United States National Security Agency has been under fire lately for it’s spying on some of the United