Saturday, August 28, 2010

fox vs. cnn

when ever i think of politics in media i always think of the 2 news giants: FOX News and CNN. Ive learned from other people that many find FOX to be conservative and CNN to be liberal (my grandfather likes to call it Clinton News Network). these news channels cant make up the news though, so how could the possibly be different. something thats news worthy for a republican should be news worth to a democrat to right?
well in trying to discover if thats true or not i pulled up both there web pages side by side to see what each one thinks is the most important stories for the day.
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/
what i found is actually kind of funny! the first one i looked at was fox news. as soon as the page opens you see a giant picture of an old guy and next to that picture is written in huge letters "NO NRA Endorsement for Reid in Nevada Senate Race". what could possibly be more republican than the NRA. FOX isn't the only one playing on political stereo types though, CNN is just as bad. if republican is to NRA then democrat is to...... you guessed it Rev. Al Sharpton! lol but no really the first articel on CNN's page reads "Sharpton: Beck has the mall, we have the message." that tittle really didnt mean anything to me, so i clicked on the article and started reading. apparently what the article is about is a critisism of and event held by Glen Beck and the Lincon Monument. so not only is it a highly democrat article, but its also the democrates and the republicans fighting with each other, further showing what side of the political line they fall on.
as different as they are though, both news stations have a lot in common though. boths first article is politically motivated, but both also have the same theme for the second article.
CNN: "in the shadow of the levees"
FOX; "Katrina, five years after: a coastline changes forever?"

so really, in conclusion. wether your republican or democrate, both CNN and FOX news report on the same things, they just give different perspectives. so if your worried about lossing your guns watch FOX and if your worried about glen beck watch CNN!

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