Fox News is Biased

I will address my final arguments in the same order that he chose to. First 2 Paragraphs (on his response to my point regarding standard level of media bias): 1. My opponent never proves that Fox viewers are more uninformed than any other demographic of news viewer. He simply asserts, probably coming from a liberal perspective, that those who watch MSNBC or CNN are more informed. 2. Even if my opponent could somehow prove conclusively that dedicated Fox viewers are quantitatively more uninformed than everyone else, he would still have to account for the fact that those viewers are choosing to be uninformed. Fox News cannot be biased if they are not forcibly making their viewers uninformed. If those viewers are *choosing* not to seek out other information to balance their ideology, then Fox can't be held accountable for their ignorance. This argument was established in RD 1, and went unrefuted by my opponent until RD 3. On the new Zogby poll and my evidence/arguments regarding the obligation to self-educate: 1. Whether the American population believes that more news is liberally or conservatively biased is not at issue here. The only thing that my evidence was meant to show is that the American public is well aware that bias is an inextricable part of the US media, hence citizens, no matter what news station they watch or what their own biases are, have the obligation to round out their own beliefs with multiple sources. Based on the results of my RD 1 Pew poll (which, by the way, states that 66% of people polled recognize bias in the media…not 42%), there's no way that Fox viewers aren't aware of media bias, even in their own pet station. 2. I encourage the readers to, again, extend my arguments about the obligation of the citizens of a free and informed nation to responsibly form their own ideology. Fox News is not a monopoly. They do not limit access to other news sources, nor are they the only known news source to their viewers. My opponent concedes that this obligation is existent and a positive obligation, but has yet to prove that Fox is meeting his own definition of "bias," which is "a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation. " Lest Fox is preventing the objective consideration of issues, Pro loses. It's a tall order, but I'm not the one who placed it. On the new evidence brought forth in RD 3: I would like to remind Pro of something I claimed in RD 1, but that went unaddressed in RD 2 by Pro: "If my opponent should desire to prove this, I wager that I can bring to the table just as many biased, liberalized news stories from outlets such as CNN. " So, in RD 3 of this debate, my opponent finally decided to put this statement to the test. Hence, my primary response is that my opponent's videos merely represent the way in which American media operates: sensationalist claims and misquotations in order to gain ratings. Media is just another cog in the capitalist machine, and therefore they, too, must sell information. If I were to respond to each of these videos (don't worry…I won't burden my readers with individual responses), I would respond in the exact same way to each: Fox News is making no claims regarding any of the issues that my opponent posts videos on. They are interviewing sensationalist politicians, analysts, and civilians alike who hold radical beliefs on specific issues. This is not new to American media, and my opponent would be hard pressed not to find similar "analysts" in the employ of any news station who are willing to come right out and say biased things when anchors are more limited. Example: if a news station chooses to interview a man who believes the Holocaust never happened, do we assume that the news station is pushing the idea that the Holocaust should be denied? My secondary response is to provide examples of similar bias occurring outside of Fox News (provided to your right :) ). Even if we set aside political pundits who claim to be informing a grossly uninformed public, like Rachel Maddow, Keith Obermann, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, ad infinitum, who exist on both the left and the right, all news stations use the same turn of phrase and interpretive liberties that Fox employs. This all loops back to the known standard of bias that the public is well aware of. . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... All of the contained videos are alleged reports of liberal news media bias. I'm certainly not attempting to claim that the media is more liberally biased than conservatively, or vice versa. The videos I have posted serve to prove my RD 1 statement true, which is to say that I can find as many microcosmic and misinterpreted examples of media bias as Pro can. Hence, Pro has failed to provide the preponderance of evidence necessary to assert that Fox News meets his definition of bias, and further fails to prove that Fox is coercing its viewers into ignorance.