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February 14, 2005
Media Bias: An Overview
Topics: BlogosphereLiberal bias toward the left side of the Democratic agenda by the mainstream media is so pervasive there's actually a website dedicated to nothing but just trying to keep up with it.
- Jawa Report
In the wake of the Gannon and Jordan
affairs, there has been a resurrection of discussions about media bias:
whether it exists, and its nature if it does exist. For myself, this
examination began recently with my post on the Fourth Estate
in which I evidently forgot to code my html for hyperbole for calling
journalists Stalinist, and was fairly called out on it by Rick DeMent
of Unspecified Chatter (nee, the Rant).
More broadly, two recent blog posts have provided a reasonably cogent defense of the so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) from folks sitting within the game itself; the first, from Steve Silver (courtesy Michael Totten) gets what appears to be a fairly solid fisking from commenter JBP at February 10, 2005 09:30 AM in Michael Totten's thread. The other is by one Derek Rose, who is also a 'member' of the media, and takes the form of a rebuttal of an open letter by a Marine in Iraq. In this one, Mr. Rose is deserving of credit, if nothing else, by sticking around in the comments and replying to his detractors.
But unfortunately, neither of these defenses or much of the immediate response provides much more than a he said, she said approach and fails to apply much thought to the problem. This is, to a certain extent, to be expected since folks on both sides of the aisle seem to think that the day-to-day conduct of major media outlets is, in and of itself, prima facie evidence of bias of some sort or another.
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