Fair and Balanced

We all "know" that the media is incredibly liberal, biasing everything toward the democrats. How do we know that? That’s a good question. Because the people who tell me that, also admit they rarely have anything to do with the “mainstream media” except of course Fox News. Because Fox is “Fair and Balanced.” And how do we know that? Because they say they are, apparently.

In all seriousness, many people are sure the mainstream media is liberal, because they hear it all the time. Rush says it, Sean says it, the republicans all say it. Sarah even calls them the “lamestream” media. So therefore it must be true.

Well, let’s try something different. Let’s try a little unscientific discovery. And while it’s unscientific, it’s still more discovery than most news fans get.

So what I have below are links to three different news websites: NBC, NPR, and Fox. They are from two different days, October 5, and October 12. So go ahead and click on them. And make your own call. 

The conclusion is pretty obvious. Now I didn't cherry pick these particular dates, I just used two random dates. But if you don’t like these results, then do what I do: When I open my browser, I have an igoogle page set up. And on that page, I have headlines and links to all three of these news sites, as well as a few others. And every day I compare these sites. So go ahead and do that. And see what you think.

Fox Oct. 5     NBC Oct. 5      NPR Oct. 5     Fox Oct. 12     NBC Oct. 12     NPR Oct. 12

And whether you’re right or left, I would think we could all agree that a news site should be neither. At least that would make sense to me.