<< << CNN tends to come off as anti-israeli. It's not something you can always point at, but it's really one of those things that, as a jew, you are more likely to be sensitive to. Sometimes their coverage of suicide bombers contains an undertone of "they had it coming"-not trying to start the debate of whether they are indeed at fault (we've had that one in enough threads), just pointing out a news trend myself and many of my friends notice. >>
Do you think you would still hear the bias that way if you were Greek or Brazilian?
I only ask because I catch myself subconciuosly looking for bias in stories about certain groups (political, ethnic, whatever) in the news that I read and hear. >>
As this post and dullard's point out, yes, the view I have is in itself biased. Although I believe that admitting you have a bias helps, it of course does not overcome any natural feelings you may have.
Notice that, in my initial post, I pretty much said that it's something a jew would be sensitive to (as far as this particular topic goes). Perhaps I should clarify in light of dullard's "news" story; if I truly dont have any initial views about an issue stories 1-3 are fine, 4-5 are attempting to change my mind before I've made it up for myself-however, there arent many major issues that I either dont care about or dont form a quick decision on based on my own values. I believe everyone is like that-I mean, I claim to be open minded, I make an effort, but, realistically, I'm not. Additionally, I dont want to generalize *everything*, but I'd say a large majority of articles fall into #'s 4 or 5, either by outright stating something or by omiting key and *obvious* details. And that brings us full circle-what's obvious, and to who?
My point is, unbiased articles are rare if even possible. You just try to read from enough sources to balance out the biases. Any article that summarizes an issue a person is knowledgable on and has an opinion on will invoke some feeling-ranging from complete agreement to complete wonder as to how they could be so "biased". In the case that I specifically pointed out (CNN), I'll be blunt-the problem (for many jews) is that too many of their articles are either #2/#3 (leaving out the fact that those damn palestines are at it again and should all be killed-not to that extent, but you get my point) or #4/#5 ("blaming" israel, quoting the palestinian side more, etc).
To summarize my rather rambling post-as a jew, I tend to feel that CNN's coverage is "too soft" on the palestines. I'm sure there a couple of people who feel that CNN ought to be explaining the logic behind the suicide attacks more. CNN makes my list because, honestly, it's towards the top of many jews' lists (not that I cant think for myself-but it *does* reinforce what I suspect). If someone could ever prove to me that an equal percentage of palestines who read CNN feel that it is biased in favor of the jews I would take it off the list.
Hope all that makes sense-just my attempt to explain that yes, i have a bias-just like everyone else.
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