News Reporters Should Be More Like Sports Reporters

[MikeIronweaver56]

I guess this is why Americans listen to and care more about Sports news than Political news.

[Richie3Jack]

He needs to read sports reporting more. Facts and data often go by the wayside for some sports writer who has an axe to grind or needs to come up with a story that gets readers interested, even if it's not remotely true. And when all else fails, makeup a story and claim you have an anonymous source. Even if you do have a source, it doesn't need to be accurate in sports reporting. Shefter reporting the Vikings had a 'schism' over Favre was a great example of a BS story.

[eirefrance]

We can't operate that way. We're all Americans first. If we say fuck all Republicans, we're buying into their idea that the only true American is a red stater. This country needs people on both sides of the aisle to work together.

[Dook6]

I agree that we need an independent party. Look at Palin here. The more we see Palin the more we think that Bush was the smartest in the RNC.

[brettski34]

@eirefrance except the concept of working together makes the concept of democracy broken. The idea is that voters choose which party they like better. It option A or Option B. If the only two parties work together then Option A = Option B. It breaks democracy, which is exactly what sissy handholding obama has done by giving the other side everything they wanted.

[GerardMontague]

Another proof of the Fox effect: Fair and balanced journalism when there is only one side to an argument

[ONEamWALKAH]

This is probably because most Americans are working class, and under 8 years of a republican presidency. They have only had to work even harder.

[aZeroGodist]

Good insight

[voyzovrezon]

I live in Maine and Congressman Tom Allen is vying for Susan Collins Senate seat. It's going to be close, but I think Collins will win. Mainers hate letting go of their incumbants.

[glddraco]

Don't blame it on media bias blame it on Bush the war criminal. Poor republicans we should back off just to be balanced, NOT.

[xxashyy]

Well Cenk the remember the democrats are winning seats not really because the American people love the democrats, its because they're no other choices. They could very easily lose seats to the republicans. Remember the democrats were elected to congress and did nothing on the war, SO to me there's really no real change. It's unfortunate that in a so called "democracy" they're is not real promotion of alternative parties in the US.

[BenjaminFranklin2u]

There are independants

[RSPM]

"Democracy" is the problem. Democracy equates to, mob rule. The United States of America was founded as a, Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. The big idea, of a, 2 party system was what started this mess.

Example:

On one side you have, a bucket of fecal material*, on the other, a bucket of urine**.

Which will YOU choose?***

* = Republicans

** = Democrats

***Actually, they're interchangeable and it makes no difference.

[TruPatriotNYC]

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[saibjai]

Well i think the problem is you have the party in power and then you have the opposition. Through all these years, both parties have a good idea what platform the majority of the public favors, so basically, both parties have the same darn platform.  All that's really left are fanboys hating on the party for the sake of it and politicians stirring up opposition for the sake of it. Then they narrow it down again. Democrats: WAR BAD.Rebupicans: War gOOD. Makes voting easy, But both have no idea.

[xxashyy]

Well said. I always said democracy is a sham when you have a large population of corporate bred couch potato's. That sounds harsh but very true especially here in the states. Just look inside American shopping mall's for examples. Really Americans in most shopping mall's look like mindless drone's with clueless expressions on they're faces. You know who would agree with me on that fact? The late and great George Carlin.

[Encyclopeteia]

Cenk is not a "news reporter". He doesn't have an expensive team of writers to come up with scripts and monologues for him. Let's say you talk for almost 3 hours a day with no script and see how many times you say "um". My point was that you shouldn't write such poor sentences if you're going to bash people for their communication skills next time. Fool. :)

[duecemom2004]

OBAMA2008 ALL DEM'S-2008

[jrkenney]

As Stephen T. Colbert has said many times:

The facts have a well-known liberal bias.

[awong06]

uh uh uh uh....this fool cant even talk properly without saying uh....so why uh is he uh even uh on uh the news....?????Please tell me...

[Encyclopeteia]

This fool "awong" can't even use proper grammar and punctuation, so why is he bothering to write comments on YouTube criticizing people for saying "uh"? Please tell me.

[awong06]

Wow you got me there. I guess you must be some kind of genius right? I know how to use proper grammar smart ass and why are you soooo worried about what I am saying, you need a life for real. Oh no I spelled "so" wrong, what on earth am I going to do? And anyways I was commenting on the fact that this dude is an news reporter and he couldn't even talk properly you prick...so get off my back...

[eirefrance]

That would be "I know how to use proper grammer, smart-ass. Why are you soooo worried about what I am saying. You need to get a life." You're welcome.

[12oranges]

Get 'em Cenk !

[tmsbry]

This is nothing new the republican party issued an internal statement 2 months ago saying that know republican seat in the senate or congress is safe

[creativelawyer]

Hold on, my Turkish friend. You're analogy may be a bit flawed. Before the Lakers-Celtics series, the media was "speculating" and polling "sports experts" as to who will win. If you recall, the Lakers were actually the heavy favorites. I see similar speculation and polling all the time before elections too.

The actual contest begins at tip off or when the votes start coming in. Anything before that is just biased predictions. Recall the "Dewey Defeats Truman" predictions in 1948.

[83Matty]

"sports experts" don't have any control on the outcome of the series, only the players and coaches do. voters who take part in these polls do have control on the outcome of the elections. BIG DIFFERENCE!

[creativelawyer]

Great point! However, I'm operating on the premise that those polls are conducted by biased news reporters/organizations.

For example, CBS recently admitted that they disproportionately poll Democrats over Republicans in some of their polls. Whereas FoxNews disproportionately polls Republicans over Democrats on their website. My point is there are always variables in these polls that can be manipulated. Recall the "polls" predicting Bush losing substantially to Gore and Kerry.

[grapplerke]

Shut up Cenk, you're nothing but a hypocrite.

[NYPlayerT2]

Would you like to back that claim up with some fact?

Hmm? ...Anything? If not, then why are you watching the TYT videos?

[135135135135135]

Cenk looks like a guinea pig.

[mcalien24]

neutrality is not objectivity

[Oli3TB76]

I prefer non-bias news like it is in the UK(most of the time), and cant stand right and left-wing news like in the US

[arrogantenoble]

why don't you just go ahead and put a bullet through your fucking brain?

don't forget to put this video in your favorites first, though.

[eirefrance]

I love how you have the gall to say that. The media has a right wing bias. Get over your stupidity and read something.

[chunksloth]

The media has a retard bias. It is almost uniformly full of dumb crap spewed by idiots who think they know it all.

If you actually watched TYT enough you would see that Cenk fits this mold nicely.

[eirefrance]

I can't really argue with that.

[DrakeMagnum]

excellent Cenk

You put it straight. Tis a no-brainer.

[bib777]

vote for chuck baldwin! constitution party!

[swaggajee]

It's time for an Independant party to take the Republican party by the throat and rip it out!!! That party is weak and they are prime for extinction. Kinda like the Darwins Theory for politics...only the strong survive.

[fumala420]

I am glad to hear it.