We all know that Fox is conservative and that CNN, along with every other news channel channel, is liberal. That is one reason that I prefer Fox: it more accurately portrays my views. It's frustrating watching a TV program where the anchors and commentators make assertions based on unexamined premises, and no one challenges those premises, because everyone in the news room has made the same assumptions. Although not liberal myself, my guess is that Fox does a much better job representing liberal viewpoints because it always has partisan liberals on to defend those views. CNN, on the other hand, usually has someone like Jeffery Toobin or Bill Schneider, on to analyze a particular legal or political event. That system means you need to trust the expert to give you both sides of the story.
But besides its liberal bias there is another reason I don't like watching CNN: It's just plain boring. Bill Schneider tends to make politics, usually a very interesting subject, quite uninteresting. Toobin manages to make the law boring as well. The anchors could not act more robot like. The whole network is sleep inducing.
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