Fox News or MSNBC More Fair on Torture Memos?

Last week, when the American Civil Liberties Union (of which I am a proud member) got the Obama Administration to release four memos from the Bush Administration's Justice Department that described and purported to legally justify various torture techniques, the contrasting coverage on Fox News and MSNBC news commentary shows (e.g. "The O'Reilly Factor" and "The Rachel Maddow Show") provided a good example of the different level of bias at Fox News compared to the level of bias found at other networks.

You can find the four torture memos from the Bush Administration's Justice Department on the ACLU's website at http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/olc_memos.html

You can find the full April 17, 2009, segment of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" from which I took 2 short clips for my video at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30271978

You can find the full April 17, 2009, segment of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" from which I took a short clip for my video at http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/22115673/talking-points-4-17.htm

And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D

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[NoiseAnn0ys]

I'm pretty sure our own government has killed more innocent people than all the terrorist attacks combined. Where is your outrage for that?

[NoiseAnn0ys]

So I can assume that you think none of those massacres happened, none of the civilian deaths in Iraq are the U.S.'s fault, we have never staged coups in countries and installed dictators that killed their own power and we have never given money, weapons or combat training to people like Bin Laden or Saddam?

[Coramelimane]

while neither channels are fair, or unbiased, MSNBC delivers more of the story then Fox News ever does.

[Frog869]

1984 is my absolute favourite book! i read it once every year and i had NO idea it was even made into the film. how the hell did that happen?

[ppods]

NEITHER!

[ImperiousViking]

I don't know how it is in America, but in Norway;

If you rob a person with a fake gun you get as much prison time as if you use a real one, because the victims fear is just as real if the gun is fake or not.

so using a "fake stinging insect" is just as worng as useing a real one.

and Fox News are totally in the wrong by saying "the threat of a caterpillar"

[filmzo]

Can't believe intelligent people are crediting the movie rather than the original book.

[IRHari]

@SangriaStud28

I didn't know the ends justify the means. I can think of another group that believes the ends justify the means.

[moreoreos123]

@bobby21349 Look, a conservative showing his true colors.

[uchihaangelus]

@madfighter56 Exactly cos I thought America is supposed to be better than that. You morons simply don't care at all about what your country is founded on eh ?

I thought the constitution meant something but apparently people don't give a shit about principles then. 

[Spartan404]

Just because something is not physically harmful to a person does not mean that it is not psychologically harmful. A person might suffer from such a thought for the remainder of their life. This person might never be able to sit fearing there's a caterpillar in his chair or bed. Besides, what if the person is innocent? Everyone has a phobia. Mine is queers.

The MSNBC was more graphic, O'Reilly mentioned more than just one of the techniques but made them seem harmless. So MSNBC was more fair.