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Debate Score:57
Arguments:34
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Which news channel tells more truth?

CNN

Side Score: 27
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Fox News

Side Score: 30
2 points

I watch both regularly, however, I take a block of salt with Fox News. Skeptics may use the argument of the 'liberal media', and perhaps the statistics will show that CNN has more left-leaners, but the difference is that CNN's reporters adhere to the standards of professionalism required in journalism, and Fox News does not. After all, I don't remember CNN trying to tell the world that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. Ha!

Side: CNN
1 point

The funny thing is that Bin laden asked Saddam for HE but Saddam refused. so Bin laden used planes instead.

Side: CNN
2 points

CNN is the better of the two, but let's be honest: Not one news network is unbiased, except for maybe some small PBS news station.

However, I like CNN more is because of various blubberheads on FOX like O'Reilly. I also tend to agree with democrats more w/ republicans, but that doesn't matter. After the Anonymous escapade, FOX News has lost all credibility.

Side: CNN

When something of import is happening I tend to lean toward watching CNN since they interview everyone but the Pope on an issue or breaking news! I prefer PBS to any network news around but they fall short on the video end most times. There I will again seek out CNN for the photos and videos that go along with the story. Fox is always my last choice for anything. To me they sell the National Enquirer or Star type of news...SLEAZY!

Side: CNN

I have watched both news networks, but the one that I would say is better is, from what I understand, part of CNN, HNN (Headline News Network). I enjoy flipping to that channel from time to time to just hear the news-I couldn't care less about the opinion of the people behind the desk. They report a story, and move on. That's how it should be.

Side: CNN
1 point

Is this even a serious question? Of course CNN. Not so much because CNN is so awesome and honest, but because FOX is so BAD. It's obviously conservatively biased, they even stooped so low to try and find every bit of dirt of Obama's personal life during the campaign. Pretty low.

Side: CNN
1 point

This should be a no brainer. But apparently some Faux watchers are too lost in the sauce to realize what a joke it is.

It's like an SNL parody, Hannity and Colmes? Seriously? They let Colmes, the "liberal" talk for all of 5 seconds, then Hannity and whichever ultra-conservative guest laughs at him for the next ten minutes.

Here's faux giving two sides of an issue.

"So is Barrack Osama a terrorist? Or just a terrorist sympathizer?"

See? Two sides, they totally let the viewer decide...

Side: CNN
1 point

They're both clearly bias, but Fox News takes biasm a bit too far. I mean i've seen Bill O'reilly start screaming at some kid who last his dad in 9/11 because he didn't agree with the Iraq war. He kept telling him that his father was going to hate him from heaven, and all this terrible stuff. At least maintain some professionalism as opposed to shouting at this kid about his dead father.

Side: CNN
1 point

they both suck because they put too much political crap in it. the news needs to be facts rather than what everyone at the news station wants to happen.

Side: CNN

CNN is the reliable news network. Whenever a breaking story happens, their reporters are right there to tell the public what just happened.

Side: CNN

I like Fox and I like Sean Hannity... but then again, I like saying controversial stuff ;)

Side: Fox News
0 points

Sean Hannity is openly biased. Fox presents news and announces when there is a bias. CNN has shown blatant liberal bias, especially in the last year, but tries to show themselves as unbiased. Even the comment made that CNN never said that Iraq was involved in 9/11 shows this sort of ignorance (although I don't remember that ever being the issue with Iraq, and I'm not sure I even believe that). CNN has never reported that Saddam had a standing bounty on anyone who killed an American. They also never reported the large amounts of yellowcake we discovered in Iraq. So i guess I agree :)

Side: Fox News
politico(75) Disputed
2 points

"Even the comment made that CNN never said that Iraq was involved in 9/11 shows this sort of ignorance"

I don't know what you mean by this. Do you mean to say I am ignorant because I know now and knew then that Iraq was not involved in 9/11? I don't know what you are getting at, I said Fox News tried to report some kind of connection between Iraq and 9/11. Which is false. Because Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

"They also never reported the large amounts of yellowcake we discovered in Iraq."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium/

Side: CNN
tallblondguy(64) Disputed
1 point

I stand corrected. So then Iraq was making WMDs? Hmmm that's weird. Isn't that why we went to war, and why Congress voted to authorize the war (including 83 democrats). What I was referring to is that somehow the CNN media has convinced people that we went to Iraq to catch Osama bin Laden, and that this war was "illegal" or "misrepresented" This is actually what the bill passed said:

Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire, including interference with weapons inspectors.

Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region."[2]

Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population."

Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people".

Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the alleged 1993 assassination attempt of former President George H. W. Bush, and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War.

Members of al-Qaeda were "known to be in Iraq."

Iraq's "continu[ing] to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations," including anti-United States terrorist organizations.

The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight terrorists, including the September 11th, 2001 terrorists and those who aided or harbored them.

The authorization by the Constitution and the Congress for the President to fight anti-United States terrorism.

Citing the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, the resolution reiterated that it should be the policy of the United States to remove the Saddam Hussein regime and promote a democratic replacement.

http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf

It is the media's attempt to warp history in order to blame one political party or candidate and put another party in power that I am condemning.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/campaign/00/cnn.asp

Side: Fox News
0 points

Fox News has fair reporting. Mainly cause, they report everything.

They also have pundits. People who make editorial comments on issues. Fox News separates their reporting from their punditry. Plus, according the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Fox News provides both sides of the arguments at the most equal rate.

CNN i will admit has good reporting, but the problem is that they have a problem with keeping their reporters from making some pundit remarks on issues. They used to focus so much on bombings in Iraq, and would only report on casualties when they were up, but now that they're down, you don't hear so much about the casualty rate anymore. Now, the only time they mention casualties is when they mention the total since we first entered the Middle East.

Not to mention on how everyone on CNN decided to call Bill O'Reilly a racist when he was talking about how most blacks aren't the blacks you see in Rap videos (he was trying to say that Blacks are portrayed violently in the entertainment field, but most aren't violent, thuggish people). and they never even apologized...

I don't agree with Sean Hannity, and i only agree with O'Reilly about 50% of the time, but Fox has people like Juan Williams, Alan Colmes, Kiersten Powers, Bill Shulz, Mark Lamont Hill and many many more Liberal commentators that provide the other side.

Side: Fox News
-1 points

Fox News is the most honest because it brings both sides to an issue and lets the viewers decide. CNN even admits to being partisan.

Side: Fox News
politico(75) Disputed
1 point

They say they let the viewers decide. But they present biased information, which the viewer then believes is unbiased. As I said before, even if CNN has more lefties, they adhere to standards expected in journalism. Fox News relies on Sean Hannity to spread lies. Even during their regular 'news' programs, the republican lens is so evident that it is almost painful.

Side: CNN
JakeJ(3255) Disputed
1 point

What exactly did Sean Hannity lie about?

Side: Fox News