Sunday, December 9, 2007

Cable News at its finest.

Today over the course of the evening I watched Fox News and CNN. A shooting at two separate church sights in Colorado was the top new story. The newscasters seem to be taking the same approach on both channels. CNN seemed to focus more on this one story while Fox seemed to move onto a few different stories. Personally I like the variety approach. A news channel should be able to give us the news of the day and when they focus on one particular story it gets redundant do to the slow speed the new information will reach the stations.

I think that it is clear that none of these stations are non partisan. It is sometimes fun to watch the opinionated talking heads on both networks. This being said, it is unfair to accuse either station or being strictly objective or partisan. In the stories of tragedy or crime at the beginning it is not going to be about the politics. Later on CNN or Fox may have a debate over gun control but that will not happen until most of the facts are out and these people run out of things to say.

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