NEWS MEDIA IS BIASED

THE DOCTOR IS IN
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PARTISAN-BIASED NEWS SHOWS

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, how's life treating you?
Where is the unbiased news reporting in today's world? Times certainly have changed.
On one hand we have the FOX News Channel and on the other we have MSNBC. If you are a Republican you watch and soak up the reporting and opinions on Fox News and if you're a Democrat you tune into the slants on MSNBC. Some of these TV hosts claim to be journalists but all they do is spout the party line on each of their respective News Channels. On FOX, you have people like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck reading copy from a monitor that promotes Republican views and talking points. MSNBC is no better. There you have people like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow doing the same thing. Both Channels hosts belittle each others political party. Rather than reporting news they read teleprompters and ridicule politicians from the opposite party and groups that may support the opposing party.

These type of so-called news organizations are clearly partisan and they format their shows to only one perspective. It is no wonder that the people across this country have a sour attitude toward journalism. Where is the news person of yesteryear when they just reported the news and let the viewer make up their own mind as to how to interpret the presentation.

Many of these supposed news shows are nothing more that a comedy show, an entertainment show. They certainly are not reporting the news. Instead, they bend, shape and spin what is a news event into a partisan dissertation. There should be an independent News Channel with an independent, nonpartisan host that actually reports the news for an hour without adding partisan mocking comments of politicians or groups with such things as puppet shows and not-so funny skits. An hour show of actual unbiased news would be a breath of fresh air. FOX and MSNBC should advertise these opinion shows as comedy and make believe news and stop pretending they are presenting news of the day. A real news reporter/journalist reads the news without a biased take. I assume that because these particular (news?) channels are on cable and the hosts are offering their personal opinions with their name fronting the show and with everything formatted into the teleprompter well ahead of time gives them a pass from actually being a legitimate news reporting venue. What we people want is actual, factual reporting of the news . . . not a "show", but it appears that's all these programs really are.."a show, not news". - And, that's my opinion.

Dr. Bradley Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at
bradomd@yahoo.com