It is very rare that I watch the news on TV. On the occasions that I do I find myslelf watching Fox News. For the purpose of this post I flipped between Fox News and CNN over the course of an hour. There were a few stories that both stations covered. One of these was the swine flu outbreak, as this is obviously a very important event. Fox News did not spend as much time covering the swine flu as CNN. CNN had doctors reporting on the symptoms and cures for people who are badly infected. Fox simply stated how the swine flu is not as serious as was originally thought, because cases of the outbreak in Mexico are tapering off.
Fox and CNN both breifly mentioned the collapsing of the Dallas Cowboys training camp tent. One story that I noticed that CNN did not cover that Fox did was how Citibank needs to raise about $10 million dollars in order to stay afloat. Both stations also covered President Obamas first 100 days in office. Fox news said that Obama should not blame Bush for the current economic situation, while CNN showed Obamas agenda for the week and ignored the economic crisis. Comparing the channels showed that they represented both sides of the spectrum. Fox News is without a doubt partisan and CNN leans more to the left. I think that it is very very hard to have objective coverage and there will always be some partisanship.
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