by Vicki Phipps

Created on: October 26, 2009

The problem with cable news networks that choose to focus on just one side of any issue is the issue which this title describes. Nothing produced on FOX news is new news at all. The only ting new about FOX news is the fact that FOX news IS the news today and that's a huge journalistic mistake, at least ethically. Even so, it's also true that at any given time, whomever disagrees with any president at that time will become, "The Anti-President of the USA," news network of that day and age.

Sometimes the negative news is produced from ABC or CBS, but then again, it can be NBC who will choose to produce half truths with anti-facts about anti-this or anti-that. It's just a familiar way to blow the other side's minds, so they will begin to rant and rave about what the other side claims, which then generates high ratings for the news group who produced only half the truth in the first place, which goes both ways. It's confusing, but the news confuses you for a reason. Americans just tend to stereotype, and through our stereotypical views, we only chose to see, hear and believe half the truth. That's what creates extreme political opinions which more often than not, have nothing to do with the truth. This is especially true when we choose to think the news is only true if the news tends to agree with our political views.

This issue became huge due to the facts of the past, when the only source of the news came through three networks news groups, which were limited to ABC, CBS and NBC, who used to produce the news through an unbiased view of nothing but the truth as it related to the facts at that time. The problem with mixing the truth and the opinionated political news that derives from huge social issues is the fact that Americans tend to look through stereotypical and opinionated views, which means we only want to watch what we individually want to believe is true. That's why it's a huge issue, because you see, opinions derived through a stereotypical view very seldom have anything to do with the truth and nothing but the whole truth. Still, that's exactly what created the need for cable news networks.

Due to our right and the liberty to think, say and do what we choose, we want to see those who speak with the opinions to which we agree wholeheartedly. That's great, but when a camera is focused on one side all the time, we only become the witness to half the truth. Still, we want to hear what agrees with our stereotypical ears through a view that seems to prove

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