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Originally Posted by Forward To Death
Unless you know someone personally, you can't really objectively tell "who's saying it". Many people think Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Chris Matthews or Rush Limbaugh are credible and unbiased news sources. I always kinda have to chuckle when I see someone make a post on an internet forum or blog or whatever about how superior their knowledge of politics is, and Fox News is biased. Then you ask them what sources they prefer, and they say Chris Matthews or Jon Stewart.
Anyways, it's fine to watch those shows, you just have to take all of it with a grain of salt if you want to be taken seriously.
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Stewart and Matthews are certainly bias. They aren't lead in, though, by an ad for the network saying "Fair & Balanced", neither of which Mr. O'Reilly is. And this is the problem with Fox News. They actively refute their bias. In fact O'Reilly had to change his affiliation from Republican to Independent just to keep the ghost up when the Post discovered it.
News sources often aren't perfect, but Fox is in a league of its own.