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  Talk:Liberal bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Media bias is a lot better than this, and the only thing I found here that is not there is some of the book references (which would be easy to add) and the Spiro Agnew speech (the organisation referenced there is definitely not neutral about liberal bias).
When the different sections (liberal and conservative bias) are large enough in media bias, they can always be spun off to their own articles.
After all, media bias is being "studied" at universities, and any tendency toward a "liberal" bias is undoubtedly counteracted by the "conservative" bias attributed to corporate ownership pressures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Liberal_bias   (4220 words)

  
 Media bias in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another allegation of liberal bias is a tendency to inflame stories which suggest that guns in the hands of private citizens are responsible for crimes (and ignore stories where a gun in the hand of a private citizen apprehended a criminal).
Claims of conservative bias came largely in response to the widespread claims of liberal bias, and to the growth of mainstream conservative media, most notably Fox News.
While critics of conservative bias in media often point, explicitly or by example, to right wing pundits' such as Rush Limbaugh, it is important to distinguish between news media, which in a free society generally acknowledge a commitment to objectivity, and commentary, which has no such obligation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_bias   (4045 words)

  
 Media Bias : the media is saturated with bias
Conservative media bias is manifested when coverage of democrats is sparse and focused on innudendo and ignores the body of what is said.
Conservative media bias is manifested when the media fails to report on sweeping changes in the FCC brought on with the help of Colin Powell's son.
Conservative, not liberal, media bias is shown when Gov. George Bush takes credit for the TX Patients bill when he acutally vetoed one and was later beat on the measure.
www.rushlimbaughonline.com /articles/mediabias.htm   (1840 words)

  
 portland imc - 2002.12.06 - conservative media bias?
The opposite view-- that there is a liberal bias in the media-- is held by majorities or pluralities of men, women, young, old, investors, white Americans, those who discuss politics frequently with family and friends, conservatives, moderates, private sector workers, and union members.
Charges of a conservative media bias by national Democrats may simply be the result of frustration over the weakness of their party.
Conservative and liberal are pretty meaningless terms in 21st Century America, the people in charge can use them interchangeably depending on what best serves their interests.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/12/37050.shtml   (1243 words)

  
 Conservative Bias
Their conservative bias causes them to inflate their estimate of the probability of collision, because colliding would be far worse than the consequences of needlessly stopping.
If, for example, a conservative social forecaster had good reason to believe that personal airplanes would become as popular in America as cars around 2023, then their bias would cause them to intuit that it would occur by 2030, just to be safe.
There's a third consequence of conservative bias that should be mentioned in this document: Conservative bias causes people to intuit that none of their knowledge is 100% certain.
philosophy.wisc.edu /lang/pd/pd15.htm   (493 words)

  
 TAP: Web Feature: Label Whores, Take Two:. by Geoffrey Nunberg. April 22, 2002.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Goldberg didn't bother to check how many of those instances of "conservative" and "liberal" were used as labels of American politicians or interest groups, much less to relativize those numbers to the occurrences of the names of each.
Concerned Women for America is a self-identified conservative Christian group (it opposes, among other things, abortion, homosexual adoption, hate-crime legislation, the AmeriCorps volunteer program, and the teaching of "ill-conceived Darwinian theory" in the schools).
Certainly critics on the left haven't been silent about what they take to be conservative bias in the media, whether in the pages of political reviews or in dozens of recent books.
www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2002/04/nunberg-g-04-22.html   (1492 words)

  
 Media Bias: Presidential Election 2000
When researching the constant argument between liberals and conservatives over the presence of a media bias in the news, it is inevitable that you will find legitimate claims on both sides of the issue.
The second reason this is such a huge example of bias is because it shows the media just waiting for someone to screw up so they can satisfy some political view of their own.
The above sources clearly represent a bias to the right which may be hard to see bye the conservatives themselves however they might be able to identify here and understand why it may be hard for liberal’s to think there is truly a liberal tilt to the media.
www.runet.edu /~kmagee/Research/Conservative.html   (687 words)

  
 Bias in Classification Accuracy Assessment
There are many sources of both conservative and optimistic bias in classification accuracy assessment, many of which are impossible to avoid.
Bias occurs when a classification estimate is optimistic or conservative.
We have demonstrated that this conservative bias can be greater than 50 percent and is especially large if a large minimum mapping unit is used or if the classified image is spatially heterogeneous in terms of classes (Verbyla and Hammond 1995).
nrm.salrm.uaf.edu /~dverbyla/online/errormatrix.html   (1982 words)

  
 The Yale Review of Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bernard Goldberg's Bias is worth reading because it is an evaluation of the media's politics by an industry veteran with a middle-of-the-road résumé.
Bias is not just an attack on the media or Dan Rather or liberals, although Goldberg does rip into all these and more.
If the media were full of conservative journalists, he says, the media would have a conservative bias; pigheadedness is characteristic of liberals and conservatives alike.
www.yalereviewofbooks.com /archive/summer02/review14.shtml.htm   (1264 words)

  
 CyberAlert -- 08/25/1997 -- Even Liberals (Not in Media) Realize Media Tilt Left -- Media Research Center
In general, perceptions of bias rise along with levels of education and political participation, such as contacting an elected official, contributing money to a party, or writing letters to the editor of a newspaper.
Among self-designated conservatives, of course, the spread is even greater: 57 percent say the media are liberal and 19 percent see them as conservative.
Although conservatives are three times as likely to see liberal rather than conservative bias, moderates and liberals alike see liberal bias in the media twice as often as they see conservative bias.
www.mrc.org /cyberalerts/1997/cyb19970825.asp   (762 words)

  
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Previous Studies of Media Bias One of the most curious and surprising statistics in all of American politics is that an overwhelming number of journalists are liberal.
First, this allows one to provide a baseline for how liberal or conservative a media outlet is. Some previous studies have only tried to determine if a news outlet gave equal coverage to each side of an issue or gave equal treatment to two opposing politicians running for the same office.
It is an exercise of, in disinformation, of alarming proportions.
mason.gmu.edu /~atabarro/MediaBias.doc   (7392 words)

  
 The Conservative Crust - Bias or Ignorance?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They never have had to pretend to be conservative to get a good grade, to be accepted by a specific "crowd," to please a lonely traveling salesman.
In truth, liberals are the most intolerant people a conservative could run into, and when he does, he must color himself the acceptable hue.
Politically, he is seen as a conservative, although he is not regarded as being as far to the right as the hawkish neo-cons in the Bush administration.
conservativecrust.com /archives/000771.php   (695 words)

  
 Media
This bias makes the world look like a more dangerous place than it really is. Plus, this bias makes politicians look far more crooked than they really are.
This bias helps journalists establish and maintain a cultural identity as knowledgeable insiders (although many journalists reject the notion that follows from this--that they are players in the game and not merely observers).
Since the press sometimes demonstrates a conservative bias, asserting that the press is liberal neither predicts nor explains.
rhetorica.net /bias.htm   (2526 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Bias? What Bias? by Bernard Goldberg
The Left, self-servingly, says it’s because conservatives (unlike civilized liberals, of course) are loud and angry and make complex political and social issues moronically simple for their moronically simple listeners, many of whom, of course, live in simple-minded Red State country.
Perhaps the charge liberals have been making most often to back their claim of conservative bias is that the media have given George W. Bush a free ride on some very important issues involving foreign policy and national security.
In fact, the only reason so many smart liberals are convinced there is no liberal bias in the news in the first place is that this is what they keep hearing from the mainstream media they rely on for so much of their information.
frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11650   (5883 words)

  
 A Measure of Media Bias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since the same surveys also show that conservatives tend to see a bias more than liberals do, this is evidence that the news slants more to the left.
But though bias in the media exists, it is rarely a conscious attempt to distort the news.
The second problem, the small-state bias in the Senate, can be overcome simply by weighting each senator’s score by the population of his or her state.
www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm   (11840 words)

  
 Does Google News have a Conservative Bias?
No bias, It's just that the majority of news is tainted to the left that something right smack in the middle can only be......right (both meanings of the word are intended).
Conservative used to be a bad word, but the Lewis Powell memo really started to rally the troops and turn things around.
This researcher shows HER bias and/or ignorance immediately with the statement, "In newspaper newsrooms, editors often go to great lengths to achieve a semblance of balance in coverage of the two major candidates for president." Okay, right off, this lady is delusional.
forums.searchenginewatch.com /showthread.php?t=1811   (3110 words)

  
 Debates: Bozell v. Alterman on Media Bias on National Review Online
In a 2001 subscription pitch to conservative potential subscribers of his Rupert Murdoch-funded magazine, Kristol complained, "The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias....
For decades conservatives have charged that a liberal bias dominated the press; at every turn the liberals in the press have denied it.
Assuming Fox were as conservative as liberals charge — and it's an assumption I am not willing to make — it would now be one against CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, and on and on and on.
www.nationalreview.com /debates/debates020503.asp   (1162 words)

  
 Supreme Court's alleged conservative bias is a myth - PittsburghLIVE.com
Supreme Court's alleged conservative bias is a myth
An attempt to remove the phrase "one nation, under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance was thrown out because the court found that the California atheist who brought the case didn't have the legal authority to speak for his 10-year-old daughter.
The court's overall performance suggests that its alleged conservative bias is a myth, and that the ruling which ended the legal fight in the 2000 election was based on the law, not a fanatical devotion to President Bush.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/dailycourier/editorial/s_202088.html   (438 words)

  
 Amazon.com: What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Much of Alterman's argument comes down to this: the conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth.
After years of hearing the common conservative lie that the media is liberal and biased, finally someone seeks to prove that the media leans right.
This writer uses one of the oldest tricks in debating to prove his point, that there is a conservative bias in the news media.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465001769?v=glance   (3397 words)

  
 Oh, That Liberal Media: Shocking News: Objective Study on Media Bias Shows Media is Leftist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They tell me that the only thing that would really prove media bias is a careful study that objectively analyzes the mainstream media for a liberal or conservative slant.
The assumption is that media outlets that refer favorably to conservative think tanks are reasonably characterized as conservative, whereas those that refer positively to liberal think tanks are plausibly labeled as liberal.
On the conservative end, Fox News Special Report came out with a rating of 27; that is, 12 points more conservative than the 39 of the median member of the House.
www.thatliberalmedia.com /archives/002179.html   (1182 words)

  
 Goldberg discusses news 'Bias'
I wrote about liberal bias, and I think it was the first time anyone on the inside had written a piece in that prominent a newspaper about liberal bias.
The cultural bias is that these guys overwhelmingly live in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. And they socialize with most of the people they are covering.
I talk about the liberal bias, but you could argue that one of the bigger biases is the bias toward crap.
www.geoffmetcalf.com /qa/25707.html   (5167 words)

  
 Only Liberals Have Agendas
There is no such thing as conservative bias in the eyes of the Media Research Center, despite the fact that logic dictates that if the liberal bias that MRC employees seem to find lurking everywhere really does exist, there must be conservative bias as well.
This large blind spot on the MRC's part resurfaced again in its criticism in an Oct. 22 CyberAlert of network TV coverage on the recent vote by Congress to outlaw a type of abortion, where -- you guessed it -- all sorts of liberal bias was found but not a hair of conservative bias.
Actually, conservative bias was found, but the MRC's Brent Baker did everything but call it that.
conwebwatch.tripod.com /stories/2003/abortagenda.html   (594 words)

  
 liberal/conservative media bias
This bias stems from news reporters and journalists themselves, 89% of whom voted for Bill Clinton in 1992.
Many prominent conservatives, including Newt Gingrich, have attempted to call attention to the bias of the press.
A typical conservative bias exists within the media as whole regardless of the content of the finished product.
newmedia.cgu.edu /nardi/projects/b2   (581 words)

  
 Media Bias Destroyed Democratic Dreams? -- 11/14/2002 - Media Research Center - Media Reality Check
A popular theory being peddled by liberal pundits is that the media are too slanted towards conservatives for liberals to get a fair shake, and that’s why Democrats did so poorly last Tuesday.
Their big gripe is that Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News Channel publicize ideas from conservatives that the liberal media won’t acknowledge.
After conservatives’ 1994 victory, network reporters attributed it to nothing more than “anger,” painted the GOP leadership as extremist, and aided liberals with heavy-handed coverage of the November 1995 government shutdown.
www.mediaresearch.org /realitycheck/2002/fax20021114.asp   (375 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Most deny conservative media bias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Last month, as reported by WorldNetDaily, Daschle criticized the "shrill" voice of conservative talk radio and media in the wake of his party's unprecedented losses at the polls Nov. 5.
The comments by some of Democratic Party's top voices echoed charges leveled by then-first lady Hillary Clinton – now a Democratic senator from New York – that a "vast right-wing conspiracy" was responsible for leveling charges against her president husband that he had an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.
Perhaps expectedly, Republicans see a liberal bias by a 70 percent to 9 percent margin, while unaffiliated voters share this view by a 38 percent to 28 percent margin.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29906   (693 words)

  
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Some of them show examples, and scream about them, many of their examples are purely anecdotal and pertain only to a certain news paper or a certain broadcast, some are a bit more widespread.
Clinton a Liberal?:One of the most common examples of "liberal bias" in the media are often ones that appear to support Clinton.
You might be able to claim media-support of the man to "moderate democrat bias" or "wussy ex-sorta-hippi-dude bias" but never, ever, liberal bias.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/2768/cmb.htm   (774 words)

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