A sweeping study of some 130,213 news articles on the 2012 presidential match between President Obama and Mitt Romney has proven anew that there was a strong pro-Democratic bias in the U.S. and international press...
"Overall, media reporting contained more frequently positive statements about the Democrats than the Republicans. Overall, the Republicans were more frequently the object of negative statements," wrote the study authors, Their conclusion: "The Republican Party is the most divisive subject in the campaign, and is portrayed in a more negative fashion than the Democrats."
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Remember, Media Bias Is A Myth
It's a myth if you're a leftie, because all the media agrees with you--how could there be any bias in that?
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In other news, the sun rose today, and water is still wet... heh!
Seriously,though--the current American political left is about signaling identification with GoodThink rather than rational argument. Thus we get the idea that "Fox News is biased" when it is also clear that it is only considered biased because it is biased in the "wrong" way.
FOX news IS biased --at least in it's commentary. And if you choose not to accept that, I guess that's okay, but it's true. There are exceptions, notably Megyn Kelly and Andy Levy (of Red Eye) and John stossel is unabashedly Libertarian, so I generally like him -- but he's biased. On the other hand, if you look at their straight news coverage, notably Shepard Smith and Brett Baer (I may have misspelled those horribly) they are generally very good. But it's nice to have a bias leaning the other way, so you can kind of average them out ...
Everyone is biased.
You probably despise him, but Noam Chomsky had made the same observations about the media.
For all the left bias talk, one wonders how Raymond Bonner was pulled from El Salvador by the NYT after attacks by the Reagan admin.
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