Can anyone tell me why Yahoo can't report the news factually instead of inserting their political bias'?
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Two thoughts.\n\nFirst, I think the headline "Immigration Bill Falls Victim to Politics" IS factual reporting.  The group that had coalesced behind this bill could not hammer out their differences in the details, so members from both parties withdrew their support - for now, at least.  What is unfortunate is the finger-pointing on both sides in a juvenile attempt to win political points; this childish behavior only makes future compromise more difficult.\n\nSecond, why on earth do we expect (or even want) unbiased reporting?  To expect another human being to relay facts, quotes, statements, etc. in a completely dispassionate way is unrealistic.  I can't leave my biases out of telling even the simplest stories, because I see things from only my limited point of view.  I wouldn't expect a reporter - who is only human, after all - to do otherwise.\n\nI, for one, am glad that we have a variety of media outlets from which we can get our information.  Hearing information from different sources causes me to CHALLENGE my own limited perspective and forces me to think more deeply than I would have allowed myself had I listened only to one news source that serves only to reinforce my biases.  So what if Yahoo! takes a headline from a Ted Kennedy quote?  Sure, some people (as you suggested) see him as an selfish idiot who cares nothing for others, but others view him differently.  As you very correctly indicated, the truth - about Kennedy, about everything - is somewhere in the middle.
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Because the media doesn't want to put the truth out there!
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It's not nearly as newsworthy.\n\nBut also, Yahoo! only lists the dead soldiers.  Not the dead civilians.
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Not Here *L*\n\nObjective information can only be gained by thoroughly researching the topic.\nAll points of views are biased, so you need a few to sort out fact from fiction.
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there are many different sources of news today: the internet is good because of its immediate nature, tv and newspapers are good because they can provide and in-depth local slant on a story.  but if you try to stay on top of everything, you'll suffer from information overload. \n\nindividually:::if you are asking how to pick and choose between the wide variety, i think a person should take into account the time they have available to digest the news, and what things they feel they need to know.  i've customized my yahoo page to bring up only those sources i trust, so in a sense i've censored myself.  there's too much out there and i feel the need to draw a line.\n\nas a society:::on the other hand if you're asking how much of our national defense policy should we give away, or should we publicize crimes that might incite others to repeat them, then it's a much finer line, with much more at stake.  where does the public's right to know overlap the potential dangers to them?  it can be decided on a case-by-case basis, but do we really trust news editors to make that call for us? they are biased by their own opinions too, so what they want us to see and hear will be colored by that.  credibility is an issue when the media are businesses that exist to make money 1st and report 2nd.  it's small wonder that people view the mass media with more than a little suspicion.
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As a conservative, I strongly oppose any reporting of ANY kind whatsoever.  Trust me, that "conservative", if we are sure that it was a con that did it, was not acting in a conservative way.  This action is not typical of conservatives, and I hope to not be grouped in with this person whatsoever.  Lib or con, everyone needs to lay off the red flag and just answer, agree or disagree, or at most ignore, and most of all, refuse to report!  Nothing will be accomplished by reporting, and we all suffer the consequences when reporting is done!  That's my rant, and my 2 cents.  Whatever, everyone take a break and have a beer.  We'll resume in 5 minutes
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I guess it's only if the media wants to run with the story...how much ratings it will get them to report it over and over again. Your Political Parties are fueled off the main stream media, so if your famous, and you make a rude remark, and it is getting closer to the elections, it will be smeared everywhere. Or they "the liberals" really don't want to hear or care what Hollywood is saying unless it's for their cause and it starts getting more air time.
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LMAO you are correct the Yahoo answer team gave violations to the AP and other news organizations for "reporting the truth"
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Because the media has an avowed liberal stance when it comes to such matters; that which they deem newsworthy- and an affront to anything they consider damaging to their agenda- will get front page news and major headlines. Anything they don't want to be noticed by the majority will be hidden in the back pages of the society section, thereby still 'reporting' the news, but not giving it the same prominence it should have had because it didn't push their agenda forward.
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They use words like "The U.S. once again has...." because the U.S. once again HAS...... The media seems to be more to the left because most journalism is liberal. It has to be or it would be judging everybody. O.K. seriously, most mainstream news doesnt report good things because good news isnt interesing. Do you remember when Clinton was in office they were just as rough on him. That is the job of the media, to investigate and report. Maybe it seems they are reporting a lot of bad because there is. If you are looking for righty news try a.m. talk radio stations, its what my husband does.
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Well first of all, surely you can find better sources of inspiration than Arianna Huffington.  She's a self-promoting entertainer who gained her notoriety on Comedy Central (kind of like Rush Limbaugh... get it?)\n\nNow to your original rant.  Nobody has said that what the NYT did was illegal, although it may be.  The key point (supported this past weekend by Republicans AND Democrats) was that after the NYT was asked to not reveal how wire transfers of money were being tracked to find terrorists' off-shore sources of financial support, they went ahead and revealed it anyway.\n\nTheir expressed rationale?... the information was in the public interest.  Well, what, pray tell is NOT in the "public interest"?  If someone leaked to the NYT that we were about to capture Osama bin Laden tomorrow, would they reveal that?  Surely the public would be interested!\n\nOur government has a right (in fact an OBLIGATION) to not reveal publicly all of the things it does to protect and defend American citizens.  It cannot break the law (Note: this activity was revealed and approved in advance by congressional oversight committees).  \n\nFor God's sake... every day the editors of the NYT choose NOT to report hundreds of stories.  Editors exercise their personal judgement on these decisions.  So don't act as if there's some "obligation" to publish.  65 years ago this kind of anti-administration driven pseudo-journalism would not have happened.  Not from the left, not from the right and not even from the radical fringe.\n\nTo all of you liberal knee jerk Bush-haters I'd say this: learn to think for yourselves.  Stop parroting the radical left unless you want to be marginalized and ridiculed as a member of the wacko fringe.
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I don't think they question anything.  If someone sends in a report, I think they automatically slap the person with a violation.  In todays' oh-so-politically correct atmosphere, we've raised a bunch of thin-skinned crybabies who simply cannot tolerate anyone having an opinion that doesn't match their own.
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Not this year. After the Kerry/Bush election they've put poll working on lock down (no cell phones allowed either) until after the polls close so there's no false reporting.
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It's some person here who has caught the fancy of some Yahoo functionary who takes the Community Standards to heart.\n\nIf ENOUGH of us, Atheist, Christian, Muslims, etc. complain to Abuse eventually Yahoo will look into to it and see if there is a pattern of abuse.\n\nYou want to make an effort, report it to your local TV news and see if someone takes an interest and does a TV report.\n\nTake it up with 60 Minutes, 20/20 and Dateline\n\nIt's OBVIOUS that this is making Yahoo Answers slanted and biased.\n\nThe other option is for us all to start reporting EVERYONE and ANYONE who violates the rules until Yahoo has to hire 5,000 people to handle it all.\n\nIf we tie them up researching 200,000 questions they won't have time to delete things.\n\nAs far as I see, RESOLVED questions never seem to get deleted\n\nThat's another avenue.  Resolve them quickly!\n\nSo, you can REPORT Yahoo to the News MEdia\n\nWe can TIE up yahoo with 1,000,000 complaints on questions and answers to make it impossible for them to do things in a timely fashion\n\nWe can obey the rules like good little soliders under the watchful eye of Big Brother\n\nOr we can do nothing except complain, like you have!
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You have clearly misunderstood the purpose of the Yahoo! Answers forum. The purpose is to pose questions and answers. \n\nDiatribes are a violation of the Terms Of Service. \n\nMy strong recommendation to you is that you post this sort of content on a political action forum, such as you'd find at http://www.craigslist.org - this is not the appropriate place. \n\nFinally, you say "Needles to say, I will not identify this Federal employee since they stuck their neck out when they told me all this, they obviously felt these laws were ludicrous just as I and most other Americans feel they are..."  - I fail to see why your posting an unattributed content of information (which you CLAIM you go from a federal official) is 'needles' to attribution.
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OMG NO!!!! Mainstream media, be they normally associated as left or right, are a bunch of non informed idiots. \n\nLiars! They are ALL liars! :) They spin it just like the next politician. \n\nPeople please, do not rely on one news source. There are three sides to every story; you side, my side and the truth. \n\nthe moral is, read as much as you can about any given situation from different sources, and draw your own conclusion.\n\n**Believe 1% of what your mother tells you and nothing anyone else tells you.
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hey you are using my motto....'they can't handle the truth' ! man, you're my kind of woman. i've only been on this site a day but i keep reading posts from others saying what you are...it seems to me ppl that report for no reason other than they disagree prove one thing... that they have no argument and are wrong.