The Recent Case for Media Bias
Ah, yes, that old song. People claim there is a strong conservative influence in today’s media, but they’re usually referring to someone like Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly, who aren’t actually journalists but just talking heads. It’d be like saying BipolarNation.com has a conservative bias - difference is, I don’t pretend I’m being fair.
Media bias comes in the form of amount of stories run or amount of time given to particular candidate. Claiming conservative bias for opinions is like saying a newspaper is balanced because it runs both Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore in the editorial section.
The media has been especially cavalier about it lately. Here are some recent news stories that continue to make the case for liberal media bias:
1. Ignoring the John Edwards cheating story.
Says Slate:
But if Edwards had an affair and lied about it, shouldn’t he suffer scrutiny akin to that of [Larry] Craig? At least three-dozen daily newspapers in the United States published the Craig news the day after the Roll Call scoop, according to Nexis, but this morning not a single U.S. daily mentioned the Enquirer piece.
2. Following Obama to the Middle East.
Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson, anchors of all the major evening news programs and people who are supposed to be unbiased, all followed Obama to the Middle East. John McCain, of course, has made lots of trips there, but Obama’s tour, for some reason, attracted all of these balanced unbiased news programs.
3. The New York Times rejects McCain editorial - after accepting Obama’s.
Do you think they’d reject Obama’s on the same basis they rejected McCain’s?
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