How do you know the media are biased?
In addition to a number of major media surveys, The American Society of Newspaper Editors published a 1999 study that showed 78% of Americans said there is a news bias in the media.
(‘Editors group releases preliminary journalism credibility study,”
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Furthermore, not only do the overwhelming majority of citizens believe there is a bias, but they say that bias is overwhelmingly liberal. This, according to a 2003 poll conducted by the Princeton Review Research Associates for PEW Research Center for The People & The Press, shows a 2 to 1 margin of respondents believe their media coverage is slanted to the left.
(“Strong Opposition to Media Cross Ownership Emerges: Public Wants Neutrality and Pro American Point of View,”
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The public seems to be correct. According to another poll from the PEW Research Center conducted by the Princeton Review Research Associates in 2004, “about a third of national journalists (34%) and 23 % of local journalists describe themselves as liberals.” A mere 7% of journalists described themselves as conservative.
(“How Journalists See Journalists,”
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But how do you know the media’s political opinions influence their reporting?
Many of them are actually admitting it these days. They admit they’re anti-business, pro-big government, anti-family and anti-religion. A couple of years ago, CBS commentator Bernard Goldberg caused quite a stir by saying in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that he couldn’t believe people were actually still arguing about whether or not the media were liberal, because it was so obviously true.
