It blows my mind that you can’t get through more than ten minutes watching Fox News without something about Jesus being shouted from the rooftops! It drives me nuts! It seems that you can’t watch the news on any channel without it being slanted toward the left or the right. Will somebody PLEASE suggest a news channel that ISN’T slanted one way or another but simply reports the news! PLEASE!! I’m so sick of this!
I would recommend Reuters TV.
Or BBC News. In my observation, religion now seems to be enough of a bromidic pastime in the UK, or affectation, that Jesus stays out of much news.
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Same in the Nordics. There might be the odd TV program that does jesus and stuff, but they are normally advertised as such. Religious stuff is, with some exceptions, normally reserved for religious holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Lent, or Ramadan. If jesus stuff or other religious stuff is featured in the news, the norm is factual reporting.
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It sounds like you live in a paradise.
Yeah, it’s like an intoxicating experience of happiness 
But seriously, life has its ups and downs, as everywhere else. Not everything is perfect, our societies have their challenges (as everywhere else), but on the whole, life is not too bad here.
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I agree. He does sound like he’s living in a paradise. If you watch Fox News, they not only have lots of Jesus commercials, but the anchor people are “God blessing” everyone they interview, talking about God left and right and all the women anchors are openly wearing crosses. I’ve switched to News Nation. Not only do they report non-biased news stories, but God and Jesus are pleasantly absent from the channel.
Why would a supreme being need to run commercials on TV? Couldn’t this god and jeebus characters run their own commercials and ads inside our heads, for free? After all, they are all-powerful, aren’t they?
The only time it happens on TV here is with explicit religious programming, and then not always. It happens, but not often. Like when our public broadcaster shows a live service from a random church on sundays, for the benefit of religious people that sit at home and cannot get to a church, like disabled people or the elderly with poor health. Which is fine since it’s a public broadcaster paid for by our taxes. Other than that, they don’t distribute their goblesses like candy. After I became an adult, I’ve only been goblessed by random weirdo street preachers, or when I’ve attended weddings or funerals.
Edit: Oh, wait! I’ve also been goblessed several times while on vacation in the US. And told that they would pray for me. That was so weird…
It has always been biased as far as I can tell.
They exist and thrive on cognitive bias. It’s baked into their business model.
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Including CNN and MSNBC, they’re all biased one way or the other.
It is difficult to avoid all biases, no matter which parts of the political spectrum you’re on. But which news organisations or outlets do you think are the least biased?
News Nation and Fox.
Being European, I have never heard about News Nation. But Fox? In what way are they less biased compared to e.g. BBC?
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Well, Fox is biased toward the right. News Nation just reports the news. They are the least biased.
I don’t know if News Nation is available to European countries. It might if you have cable or satellite TV. They just report the news and even their opinion shows are unbiased toward either side but are far more balanced. Chris Cuomo moved from CNN to News Nation. With CNN, Chris was biased against Trump. But it seems the management told Chris that he needs to be balanced in his opinions. He seems to be compliant…so far!
When clear harms / wrongs are being committed, to remain “neutral” is to be complicit, beyond a certain point.
It is one thing to control for bias, it is another to sane-wash the headlines and framing to the point that you are normalizing bad behavior. For example, the recent trend with the Trump regime is to ignore / flout court orders. If you don’t call it that, but call it something like “an astonishing new flex of executive power”, you have just “both-sidesed” it and implied that it might, from a certain perspective, be something other than disrespect for the rule of law.
We are WAY beyond the point that I have any patience for that kind of “journalism” – or for voters who have a choice between a fundamentally competent / decent candidate despite that they might have some disagreements with aspects of them, vs opening the portals of hell, such that they are undecided right up to the moment they cast their vote.
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Flamboyantly and proudly ignoring and disregarding court orders is not a flex. It is undermining the judicial system. But that is exactly how authoritarian forces and fascists grab power. Call a spade a spade.
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