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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 1047299" data-attributes="member: 4805">I think it&#039;s effects are overhyped, bias exists but everyone knows it which mitigates it&#039;s effects also I think the bias is more a reflection of people&#039;s preferences than a shaper of them, ie, people have a choice no one is forced to watch FOX or MSNBC they choose to watch the one which they think is most likely to tell them what they want to hear. You can always choose to watch neither, which is what I do. Blaming other people&#039;s choices on &quot;media brainwashing&quot; is just a way denying that anyone else can have a reasoned opinion that differs from your own. If the republican party is struggling to win an election which by all rights should be a cakewalk for them, then either they are incapable of fielding a decent candidate or they need to take a look at their party platform and figure out what it is that so many people find unappealing about it. jmho.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 1047299, member: 4805"] I think it's effects are overhyped, bias exists but everyone knows it which mitigates it's effects also I think the bias is more a reflection of people's preferences than a shaper of them, ie, people have a choice no one is forced to watch FOX or MSNBC they choose to watch the one which they think is most likely to tell them what they want to hear. You can always choose to watch neither, which is what I do. Blaming other people's choices on "media brainwashing" is just a way denying that anyone else can have a reasoned opinion that differs from your own. If the republican party is struggling to win an election which by all rights should be a cakewalk for them, then either they are incapable of fielding a decent candidate or they need to take a look at their party platform and figure out what it is that so many people find unappealing about it. jmho. [/QUOTE]

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