"I think people are getting their news from stovepipe sources of information -- where people are basically getting the news they want to hear. Whether it's Fox on the right or MSNBC on the left, it's making it hard for centrist Democrats. It's making it hard to elect centrists, who I think are critical to the functioning of our checks and balances form of democracy."
-- Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX), in an interview with ABC News, explaining the political polarization in Congress.
-- Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX), in an interview with ABC News, explaining the political polarization in Congress.
Edwards is stating what is pretty obvious to me - that the 24 hours news networks are really doing more harm than good to our political system. However, the recent lame duck session of Congress makes me wonder it the effect is as pronounced as I thought it was.
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I take exception to equalizing FOX with MSNBC. FOX outright lies/and or distorts the political truth of what is happening within this country and without. While MSNBC have liberal programs, such as Rachel Maddow, Ed Schutz and Keith Olberman, it also has conservative programs such as Joe Scarborough.
The liberal programs on MSNBC also have no problem criticizing President Obama and the democrats. Have you ever heard FOX doing the same to the Bush administration and the republican party?
Please see http://mediamatters.org/ and http://factcheck.org/ for multiple examples of what goes on in both networks. They have pointed out factual errors in both.
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