forget about Fox News for a sec (i know that Liberals love to beat the hell out of that one), let's just talk about C-SPAN. The following scores reflect CSPAN’s overall bias and reliability scores according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

I was reading on Wikipedia about C-SPAN because I wanted to know if it was a public news source or a private one.I found it interesting because it is the closest thing you can get to fair and balanced (sorry Fox News, but having so much punditry is just gonna make things complicated).The whole idea is constant coverage of what goes on in government. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. ©2020 TidyLife, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Lamb shared his idea with several cable executives, w… If this is your first time checking out a debate, here are some quick tips to help get you started: It was a time of rapid growth in the number of cable television channels available in the United States, and Lamb envisioned a cable-industry financed nonprofit network for televising sessions of the U.S. Congressand other public affairs event and policy discussions. The survey's respondents were a mixed group, with 31 percent describing themselves as "liberal," while 28 percent described themselves as "conservative", and the survey found that C-SPAN viewers are an equal mix of men and women across all age groupsNow, Fox News has been through similar mistreatments. Brian Lamb, C-SPAN's chairman and former chief executive officer, conceived C-SPAN in 1975 while working as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief of the cable industry trade magazine Cablevision. In general, C-SPAN is unfiltered and minimally biased. LEFT BIAS These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Reliability: 0.00. Overall, we rate C-SPAN Least Biased and Very-High for factual reporting based on unfiltered coverage of congress. I understand the hostility towards Fox since it does have people like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, but the Pew Research Center has released stats on how Fox is pretty far up there in fair and balanced coverage.So what am I missing here? The quote is in the asterisks (So what? It's that really boring channel you skip with all the Congressmen debating about some bill in the house of representatives.Sorry about the mess up in editing. A factual search reveals they have never failed a fact check. The survey's respondents were a mixed group, with 31 percent describing themselves as "liberal," while 28 percent described themselves as "conservative", and the survey found that C-SPAN viewers are an equal mix of men and women across all age groups* Now, Fox News has been through similar mistreatments. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. CreateDebate is a social debate community built around ideas, discussion and democracy. (6/6/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 3/14/2019) These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. Is it also a Conservatively biased station? Scores above 24 are generally acceptable; scores above 32 are generally good. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes. C-SPAN's decision to work around the rules and show the sit-in was — rather predictably — viewed by some as a sign of political bias. Bias: 0.00. if they had less punditry it would qualify as " fair and balanced", your myopic vision never ceases to amaze me;-) User content, unless source quoted, licensed under a Despite its stated commitment to providing politically balanced programming, C-SPAN and its shows such as  have been accused by left-leaning organizations of having a conservative bias*A 2010 survey of C-SPAN's viewers found that the network's most-valued attribute was its balanced programming. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes.