Fox News

I'm sure that I have mentioned this before, but I read all the mainstream news sites as well as some that are not so mainstream in order to get a clear picture of what each is reporting. Media with a liberal bias is no better than media with a conservative bias, and I find both extremes reprehensible. So, in order to formulate an opinion that isn't tainted by the spin, I take everything in and draw my own conclusions. I say this because I am about to pick on Fox News, and I don't want to give anyone the impression that I roll my eyes at them any more or less than I would "It's not news, it's CNN..."

MSN: Where Almonds Are the Only Constant

I suppose I began to read MSN (UK version here) at around the time that I created my first dummy Hotmail address. I don't remember ever actually seeking this site out, or having anyone say, "Hey, Beagle, there are some great articles and hard hitting news here..." Yet somehow, over the years, both the US version and the UK version have ended up in my list of bookmarks.

Over the years, I have developed a love-hate relationship with MSN. The message boards and comment sections for articles on both sides of the pond tend to attract people on the low end of the human evolutionary scale, and can provide both cheap entertainment and horror all at once. It's no wonder they do, for outside of actual news, they make an art form of fluff, repetition, and contradiction.