I have to disagree. I used to always read two or three papers a day. The New York Times always, always told a one side of the story. Especially when talking about Israel. Other papers would in fairness at least put in a comment from the other side just so you would know there are two sides to a story. NY Times mostly printed one side as fact nobody disputed.
Washington Post is very biased. ABC, CBS and NBC biased. Can you name one network anchor that doesn't love Obama? Compare Charlie Gibson's interview with Barack Obama, and his interview with Sarah Palin http://urgentagenda.com/PERMALINKS%20III%20MAY%2008%20-/PERM%20SEPTEMBER%2008/13.BIAS.HTML On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:272208 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
