News

I usually don’t watch the news because it just makes me infuriated, but I chose to watch MSNBC and Fox news so I could compare their stories and how they portrayed them differently. As I was watching Fox and MSNBC, their big topics were the Report cards of the Republican debate. Well since we have already established that the reason for a debate is not to win but to relay messages to the public, it seems like both news broadcasters were reporting on the wrong topics. The entire time I was watching they continued to explain how each candidate was brutally beating the other ones or how they were failing miserably in a certain areas. It made me irritated because the people who were grading the debate were constantly yelling at each other and not explaining why they gave that candidate that grade. On Fox, there were three people who were grading the candidates on how they performed and all three could not agree on one grade, in fact they usually thought the complete opposite. MSNBC and Fox talked more about how Wolf Blitzer annihilated Gingrich on not explaining why he thinks Romney is a liar. I thought that after they stopped praising Blitzer for doing his job they would get to the issue that Gingrich is pointing out, but they completely bypassed that important fact that people should know since they are voters!

            As I was watching these two news channels, it made me glad that I stopped relying on them for my facts on politics because it is completely absurd some of the things that comes out of those people’s mouths. Fox news is constantly bashing the President and people who are supporters of him and MSNBC is constantly bashing Republicans; this is scary knowing that people actually watch the news and vote according to what the news says. There have been numerous studies showing that people who watch Fox are already conservatives and people who watch MSNBC are already Democrats, but this is frightening too; because people don’t need to look at issues as simple as conservative or liberal because many issues in the world are very complex and blue or red is not going to solve the problems. The media should do their jobs in bringing people the facts, not providing us with bias opinions that we don’t care about.