October
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Answers to “Fair & Balanced” Quiz
Posted In: Media by ChiefThe other day we asked if you could identify which website belonged to which news or political organization. Here are the answers:
Website #1 – FoxNews
Website #2 – Wall Street Journal
Website #3 – MSNBC
Website #4 – Rush Limbaugh
Website #5 – CNN
Website #6 – Huffington Post
How did you do?
I did pretty well. Frankly, I didn’t think the headlines said as much about the site as you implied. It was more a familiarity with some of the techniques and “standards” of the site.
I never go to Rush’s site (he is an idiot – the Rams should use him as a blocking dummy instead of an owner) but the whiting out of his head was a dead giveaway.
I go to Huff Post, CNN, MSNBC, and WSJ enough to recognize their style, fonts, and coloring. Fox was simply elimination of choices.
A more telling test may be to just show the top 5 headlines of each site and see if there is any bias. I think I would have failed that test.