Liberal vs. Conservative in the Media

During the town hall meeting held at Ritchie Coliseum last Friday, President Obama mentioned how a lot of the time people only receive their news from one side. He talked about how many conservatives only watch conservative channels like Fox, while many liberals only watch channels such as MSNBC, and neither side every gets to hear the other side's opinion.

To me, this statement by the president seems very true. From my experiences, it seems as though many people only want to hear their side of the argument, and never want to listen to the opposing side.

However, I personally do not think the problem is that people do not want to change the channel, I think the problem is people have to change the channel in order to hear both sides. News channels should not be biased towards either side, they should just be accurate and truthful. Yet accroding to a survey (link below), a large group of people think that news is becoming more biased and inaccurate.

http://people-press.org/2009/09/13/press-accuracy-rating-hits-two-decade-low/