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I don't think the media bias is intentional or that orders to be biased towards one candidate or another come down from on high.
However, most people in the media are biased toward liberals. When the executives and the reporters and the news anchors etc are all biased in the same direction, the collective effect of that is media bias.
It's the same with intraparty debates. Most people in the media are probably in favor of Hillary Clonton, therefore, the collective effect of all the people who run the media ends up in a bias toward her.
That may be an accurate observation.
However, the bias is much more pronounced on the Right (if more limited to single source). Fox and Conservative talk shows have been bashing Obama and Hillary nearly 24X7 for years. There is no equivalent campaign for this on the left to assassinate the character of certain politicans in the minds of the public.
However, the bias is much more pronounced on the Right (if more limited to single source). Fox and Conservative talk shows have been bashing Obama and Hillary nearly 24X7 for years. There is no equivalent campaign for this on the left to assassinate the character of certain politicans in the minds of the public.
Do you ever listen to liberal talk radio or watch MSNBC?
Many of us observed the biases that, say, NBC mods have shown during the debates, favoring Clinton over Sanders. (Never mind if you don't think so, but as long as you agree certain news stations have bias toward presidential candidates) My question is: is this a tacit understanding among the news station's employees, or were they somehow given the instruction to be pro-X and anti-Y (e.g. favoring Clinton and being against Sanders, just as an example)? Did it come from the very top of the station, say CEO or president of NBC, who dictate whoever writes the debate questions in certain biased ways? (what if a mod personally favors Sanders over Clinton? He/she would still have to ask the prepared questions against his/her own will?)
It's what naturally happens when they only hire people with the same beliefs and biases. They don't need instructions from the top when they're all spinning the same direction. The few who disagree won't dare speak up or they'll be fired, the same thing happens in academia, it's hardly an accident that the overwhelming majority of professors - in non engineering fields - are extreme far left liberals.
However, the bias is much more pronounced on the Right (if more limited to single source). Fox and Conservative talk shows have been bashing Obama and Hillary nearly 24X7 for years. There is no equivalent campaign for this on the left to assassinate the character of certain politicans in the minds of the public.
You must be joking, no one can be that blind. Did you never turn on any news station other than Fox for the last 25+ years? You must not have, or if you did you're so blinded by your own partisan bias you can't even recognize it when you see it.
Many of us observed the biases that, say, NBC mods have shown during the debates, favoring Clinton over Sanders. (Never mind if you don't think so, but as long as you agree certain news stations have bias toward presidential candidates) My question is: is this a tacit understanding among the news station's employees, or were they somehow given the instruction to be pro-X and anti-Y (e.g. favoring Clinton and being against Sanders, just as an example)? Did it come from the very top of the station, say CEO or president of NBC, who dictate whoever writes the debate questions in certain biased ways? (what if a mod personally favors Sanders over Clinton? He/she would still have to ask the prepared questions against his/her own will?)
The simple truth is that the profession of journalism lends itself towards Liberalism. Before there was Fox News, it was widely understood that there would always be significant liberal bias in the news media across the board. Coverage is still heavily Liberal-biased. Not much has changed over the years, though the constant specter of concern over their political bias has driven the increasing trend towards politically biased journalists officially being Independents.
The station execs are more likely to be Republican.
The simple truth is that the profession of journalism lends itself towards Liberalism. Before there was Fox News, it was widely understood that there would always be significant liberal bias in the news media across the board. Coverage is still heavily Liberal-biased. Not much has changed over the years, though the constant specter of concern over their political bias has driven the increasing trend towards politically biased journalists officially being Independents.
The station execs are more likely to be Republican.
"it was widely understood that there would always be significant liberal bias in the news media across the board"
I disagree.
When we only had the big three, we did NOT know they were biased.
When conservative talk radio and FOX came along we ONLY GOT THE LEFT LEANING VERSION OF THE NEWS WHICH WAS LEFT BIASED BUT, WE DIDN'T KNOW IT.
"it was widely understood that there would always be significant liberal bias in the news media across the board"
I disagree.
When we only had the big three, we did NOT know they were biased.
When conservative talk radio and FOX came along we ONLY GOT THE LEFT LEANING VERSION OF THE NEWS WHICH WAS LEFT BIASED BUT, WE DIDN'T KNOW IT.
You may be right. I for one was totally shocked watching the election results come in. I believe it was Peter Jennings who said things like, "We might still win X state" and clearly identifying himself with the Democratic Party. It wasn't that I didn't think he was liberal, I just felt he should have the decency to keep his political biases silent under those circumstances.
The most iconic "everyman's" TV news anchors in my lifetime:
Walter Cronkite: Democrat
Dan Rather: Democrat
Peter Jennings: Democrat
Tom Brokaw: Democrat
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