Fox News, and CNN and NBC to a lessor extent, are basically like those funny 1800s city papers, nowadays. When you go back in 1800s/early 1900s archives and read headlines like, "MAYOR HIDES ALLIGATOR IN MANSION, ADDICTED TO OPIUM?" in bold print headline.
The majority of US cable news is either light entertainment or talking heads. Opinionated talking heads have always had a certain bias, that's why they're there - to get you to agree strongly and watch them or disagree strongly and watch them to say, "What a fuckhead." That said they seem to be a bit more crazy these days.
The sad truth is that many Americans are more interested in the fact that Lindsay Lohan has to have a legal caretaker than President Obama continuing the ridiculous Bush-era executive priviledges or the Republicans mostly being top tax bracket-protecting twats.
I'm pretty liberal but I end up watching Fox News once in a while for entertainment, with any hard news I gleam being an occasional bonus. The sad thing is that many people are not capable of distinguishing Fox, or CNN or NBC as "entertainment" rather than un-biased news coverage. I suppose I can't blame them, though. If I had a right-wing world view, and I watched Fox News, I guess I'd think they were unbiased too.
At this point the only US televised source for news I'd put any faith in is PBS or C-SPAN. BBC, CBC, and Al Jazeera English all the way for me.
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