There is definitely more "liberals" in the media than "conservatives".
But that is not necessarily due to bias, but more because of the kind of people drawn to certain job types. MBAs for the most part lean conservative Military folk lean conservative Teachers lean liberal Doctors lean conservative, nurses lean liberal. Most newspaper OWNERS skew conservative. And in any given paper, 90% of the content has no _political_ bias. The business section is biased towards local companies. The sports section is biased to local teams, and teams who are winning. The ad sections are biased towards people with a little less money than they had last week. The local news section is biased against "the establishment" (for the most part) The main news stories are biased towards hot topics. The car section is biased towards car dealerships. But even in a paper where the editorial staff leans liberal, they are trained as journalists to fight that urge. And succeed, to some degree. Not on the Editorial page, obviously, but in the rest of the stories. And even in a news source labeled "liberal" or "conservative", individual reporters often differ with the other reporters on a story, differ with the sources, differ with their section editor, who differs with their editor, who differs with the publisher, who differs with the owner, who differs with the advertisers who differ with the paying readership. So, to claim any lasting, lingering bias is just unrealistic. A slight skewing, maybe. But, as was pointed out, that skewing has more to do with the perceived power base and reader base than political leanings. (Poynter Institute has some great research on these topics. fascinating reading. truly) On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > There is some bias in the media, but this vast liberal media conspiracy > simply doesn't exist. > > Media bias leans against whoever the standing president is, it sells > commercial time and newspapers > > Sam wrote: > > An independent that thinks there's no bias in the media. > > I wonder who you'll vote for :) > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> The whole MSM argument is the sadest part of this whole thing. > >> > >> Get over it. Really. > >> > >> And "my guy"? I don't have a guy. > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:272205 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
