few exceptions, but except for those few, accuracy is not high on their list

In fact, I have heard some apologists for that kind of reporting, excusing it because "the competitive nature of the business is to get the story out first". It is a sorry excuse for a inept fourth estate

It's all about managing the public's perceptions and shaping their opinions to the benefit of the oligarchs.

that is not really marked as such. This was the news anchor introducing the story. Walter Cronkite would never have done it like that. So fair and balanced!

than that. It isn't just Fox, all the MSM cable news shows and The TODAY Show, GMA, etc have black lists of guests they won't put on and issues they won't cover.

There is no opposing view presented anywhere -- TDS and Colbert are, at times, just another way to watch Fox News. SNL is likewise obsessed with making Fox the poster child for the things that ALL of the networks do now. There is avery narrow range of issues that get coverage and the coverage they get is designed to sell us on the "solution" they want, like the Iraq war for example.

or print media, but the M$M knows they have a lot of the apolitical audience who thinks they are keeping up on current events by watching them.

At least the comedians have an interest in making fun of them and some more might leak through that way.

...being stuck at the table with that right-wing relative or in-law who just says whatever the hell is on his/her mind, no matter how uneducated he or she really is about the situation.

Honestly, I don't think there's much difference.

is so blatantly evidence of what they are doing. That presentation was about as biased as it could be, and not even subtle!