Asheville-based WLOS-TV Provides Biased Coverage of Freedom Works Healthcare Protest

[candlercraig]

If you find this biased, then YOU are the ones using a warped lens. All WLOS is doing is showing both sides of the issues. Mr Minnick is wrong, he has only himself to blame, not the government. He and his wife retired to Mexico and when they couldn't afford it anymore they come back here and start whining. GO BACK, Why should the government have to take care of him when he spent his money in Mexico. NC does have an insurance fund for people that are not able to find it anywhere else.

[rkpine]

Diffucult to tell if they are just stupid or blind to the effects of a government take-over of yet anather industry! Lets talk about the affer effects of the government take over- then these dim folks might understand the dangers

[LokiMythos]

Ah, OK, so I don't get it, What part was biased?

[rkpine]

The government has not right to take over, and destroy the best system in the world, they do not do well with managing anything but the military. Look at social security, the post office, medicare etc..

[blingbling65943]

Once again reality has a Liberal bias,

[GraceTofall]

It isn't biased. It's an attempt to provide information about why health reform is a growing concern among many and about why others oppose it.

Only if you are looking for the most facile coverage, coverage of a noisy event rather than coverage of the issues that lay behind it, will you find this report biased.

Would you have suggested that reporters cover protesters screaming at government agents escorting African-Americans into segregated schools without digging deeper into that issue?

[rkpine]

It is biased! It sympathizes with one side -- do you see it now? Real journalism is dead, it is too hard for these folks.

[GraceTofall]

If you find this report biased in favor of health care, you had better think about the lenses you are using to view and understand it. Just because it doesn't provide advocacy for an anti-governmental viewpoint doesn't mean it is biased. It provides information and points-of-view from both sides. It isn't a deep report, sophisticated in its coverage, just a simple attempt to dive into the issue a bit and show what both sides think.

[berjaboy]

Not sure how I should rate this? The reporting is so bias and so nonchalant about it that giving it a five might look as if I support the way the story is presented, which I don't. But you can't get a better example of media bias then this. They basically blew off the concerns of the 40 to 50 protesters and instead sided with one couple. So why wasn't this couple at the protest too counter protesting? Why didn't I see any counter protesters. Why didn't the media report where they were?