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	The Journ Burn: Journalistic Bias, By Zach Rawlings
		In other words, journalists are heeding to their narrative bias by assigning the hostages in the school as protagonists, the Chechen hostage-takers as antagonists, and the struggle for Russian denomination over Chechnya as its major conflict.
		Journalists can have a heyday by taking pictures of hostages being released and reunited with their families, or children leaving the school building looking malnourished and dehydrated.
		There are many other biases that journalists will hold while covering this event, however, a visual bias and a narrative bias seem to be the most likely to me. I look forward to seeing the many angles journalists take while covering this unfortunate episode.
	rhetorica.net /MT/archives/002513.html (438 words)

	Stop Journalistic Bias Petition
		We are most disturbed by the inappropriate commingling of the newscasters’, journalists’, and anchors’ personal political opinions with what are supposed to be unbiased news stories.
		If we are to allow such bias to remain within the realm of journalism, we also expect and demand a caveat of "editorial freedom" to be announced or printed before each report that is purported to be based on fact.
		The Stop Journalistic Bias Petition to Major News Networks & Journalists was created by Conservababes and written by Danielle Davis (mediapetition@aol.com).
	www.petitiononline.com /sjb1007/petition.html (358 words)

	Media
		Journalists often seek out the opinions of competing experts or officials in order to present conflict between two sides of an issue (sometimes referred to as the authority-disorder bias).
		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).
		Most journalists, consciously or not, accept a theory (metaphor) of language as a transparent conduit along which word-ideas are easily sent to a reader or viewer who then experiences reality as portrayed by the words.
	rhetorica.net /bias.htm (2526 words)

	The Peace Encyclopedia: Media Bias
		Compounding that, well-known journalists emulated by younger reporters, spun their venom on the printed page and TV, telling America why the Jews were always at fault.
		Indeed, the misreporting of the Burkan case and subsequent journalistic dereliction are not anomalies.
		BBC journalists have long expressed their animus towards Israel both in their reporting, and in revealing actions after leaving the region.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/mediabias.html (2652 words)

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		Journalists have fallen into the habit of undermining a candidate's word by publicly questioning their motives and smearing the candidate's imperfections across the fl and white of the front page news.
		Journalistic values and political values are at odds with one another, resulting in a news agenda that misrepresents what is at stake in the choice among the candidates
		Journalistic values, although supposedly neutral, introduce an element of random partisanship into the campaign which coincidentally works to the advantage of one side or another.
	web.syr.edu /~gegardne/patterson.html (1677 words)

	NPR : Is Liberal Bias What NPR Listeners Secretly Want?
		Many journalists (including some at NPR) feel that their role is to defend the underdog.
		Journalists agree that there are simply too many checks and balances in the editorial process to allow for open partisanship.
		My sense is that NPR is no more biased than many other mainstream American journalistic organizations that have belief in an obligation to provide the truth in as fair and contextual a manner as possible.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4717847 (1392 words)

	Background \| Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
		Studies noting a preponderance of journalists voting for Democratic presidential candidates, or widespread secularism, are cited as proof that journalists are disproportionately liberal.
		Many journalists and some other academic work counter that journalistic conventions such as fairness and balance help journalists overcome these personal biases, or that these personal characteristics are overwhelmed by other journalistic predilections, such as a desire to look tough, or an orientation toward conflict.
		Studies of bias tend to have taken the approach of identifying an objective record on matters where there is statistical research, and then comparing the coverage to that research.
	journalism.org /node/446 (242 words)

	PressThink: PressThink's Questions and Answers about Media Bias
		The trouble arises (and this is the whole reason we have the bias debate) because American journalists some time ago took refuge in objectivity, and began to base their authority on a claim to have removed bias from the news.
		Bias is a tendency to misrepresent, which is not the intent of editorial judgment.
		Journalists hired to diversify the newsroom are brought on board in the belief that many different perspectives are needed to provide a full and fair news report.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/05/22/qa_bias.html (11567 words)

	Overt Liberal Media Bias: Journalistic Fraud
		Now, while this isn't direct evidence of bias, the only way it could not manifest itself as a bias is if we assume that the liberals are many times as capable of hiding their bias as conservatives.
		Ie, say 1 in 100 in the local media wear their bias on their sleeve - out of 10,000 reporters, that would mean 12 conservative and 23 liberals display an open bias unless somehow liberals are only half as likely to wear their bias on their sleeve.
		This is journalistic fraud at its most basic: he didn't lean left or right, he just fabricated or plagarized pretty much every story he ever wrote for the NY Times.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=68269 (3393 words)

	Forums \| MacLife
		While I agree with the idea that journalistic bias is at best difficult to avoid and most likely next to impossible to avoid without making a story consisting entirely of simple declarative sentences that state explicit matters of 'fact'.
		Bias does not consist of a story that portrays one person or another in what can be seen as a positive light - it consists of a continual pattern.
		The examples with which he bolsters his accusation of a pattern of bias against the NRA seem to be both questionable in their accuracy and irrelevant to the argument he makes, bias against the NRA specifically.
	www.maclife.com /forums/post/3809 (3430 words)

	Look What I Found In My Brain!: Journalistic bias and science reporting
		Hard-nosed, old-school newspaper reporters are particularly touchy about bias: in their world, good reporters should be neutral, non-participatory observers.
		journalists trained extensively in science may adopt the values of scientists and lose the ability to be critical."
		A reporter who scorns education has a mind that is already halfway closed, and the rest of it is liable to snap shut whenever the reporter is faced with a difficult technical issue he or she cannot easily comprehend.
	www.sff.net /people/lucy-snyder/brain/1993/02/journalistic-bias-and-science.html (1001 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Biased or Unbiased - A Tale of Two Interviews
		These journalists report press releases as fact without verifying them--such as the urban myth that men watching the superbowl are likely to abuse their wives.
		The solution to bias, such as it is, is love of and pursuit of the truth, especially as against one's ego and one's sensibilities and one's advantages, accompanied by relentless personal integrity and self-examination.
		Bias is an admittedly fuzzy word, and you may have a point that it has become an umbrella term covering fraud, slander, demogogurey, propaganda-as-education, and willfull ignorance.
	rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/01/biased_or_unbia.php (12364 words)

	Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias
		It seems to demand that journalists present competing points of view on a scientific question as though they had equal scientific weight, when actually they do not.
		Our results showed that the majority of these stories were, in fact, structured on the journalistic norm of balanced reporting, giving the impression that the scientific community was embroiled in a rip-roaring debate on whether or not humans were contributing to global warming.
		But a much subtler mechanism is also at work: the journalistic norm of balanced reporting, widely considered one of the traditional pillars of good journalism.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1978 (2754 words)

	The Bruno Magli Shoes
		A good journalist is supposed to be able to report on a story objectively regardless of his or her own bias...
		And it is that same training and commitment that makes me highly intolerant of journalists who abuse their access to newspaper columns and radio/tv microphones by allowing their personal bias to color and distort their reports and comments on a news event.
		What it did that was so destructive of justice was to destroy or damage by their biased and often unfair, incorrect or incomplete reporting and commentary the public confidence in and understanding of the respective verdicts and their relative importance and weight to the question of guilt or innocence.
	members.fortunecity.com /schreck/ARTICLE1.HTML (1733 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Briefings - Leftist Allegations of Media "Bias" Bring Crocodile Tears
		Those who suggest that there is bias in news reporting on the other hand, are typically characterized by the same crowd as paranoid kooks.
		Washington journalists have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for well over a generation, at a rate clearly not reflective of the general population.
		Those who wish to confirm or deny allegations of journalistic bias are invited to do news database searches of their own.
	www.aim.org /publications/briefings/2002/dec10.html (1175 words)

	Evolution News & Views: Proof that the Media is Biased Against ID
		He assumes that all critiques of evolution are “theological attacks that masquerade as being ‘scientific’ in nature” and encourages journalists to frame articles as such, to avoid lending “undue credibility” to non-evolutionary viewpoints.
		Under this journalistic philosophy, the court of public opinion is to be determined by the media.
		Mooney seems to imply that journalists should become partisans in their coverage of intelligent design because the American people cannot be trusted to think for themselves.
	www.evolutionnews.org /2006/10/proof_the_media.html (1805 words)

	Overt Liberal Media Bias: Journalistic Fraud
		And then I was making the point of comparison between journalists versus the public (in reply to what you posted), which first you deny, and now you admit (that the article makes comparisons between journalists and the general population) a twisting and circular pattern...
		While most of the journalists, like many Americans, describe themselves as "moderate," a far higher number are "liberal" than in the general population.
		Journalists and actors do it all the time - mostly because their real names are boring or difficult to say.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=68269&page=2 (3358 words)

	Conservative Book Service: Bias by Bernard Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this jaw-dropping exposé, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, and journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion.
		He acknowledges that many times, the leftist journalists and media outlets may not be aware of this bias or may not do it intentionally, but none of this can argue away the fact that the bias is real--terribly real.
		Furthermore he says explains why there is a bias and why liberals refuse to admit or even recognize their own bias.
	www.conservativebookservice.com /products/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=C5866 (1443 words)

	Amazon.com: Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"Journalistic Fraud" packs the same wallop: on occasion, Kohn goes over the top and appears to be more conservative than the moderate he claims to be, but having read it, I will never read a newspaper article (in the NYT or elsewhere) with quite the same innocence.
		What JOURNALISTIC FRAUD is, however, is a thorough, point-by-point analysis of the journalistic mechanisms by which the so-called, self-styled "Newspaper of Record" (a term that, incidentally, is a marketing ploy, nothing more) permits its editorial viewpoint to distort its news coverage.
		The indictment of bias here is based not upon a random story here and there but on a demonstrably repeated and systemic pattern of distorting the reporting of its news in an effort to project its editorial viewpoint and to influence the nation's agenda accordingly.
	www.amazon.com /Journalistic-Fraud-Distorts-Longer-Trusted/dp/0785261044 (2612 words)

	Dave Friedman's Soul of Wit: Bias: It's All Relative
		In thinking about all the attention paid to the issue of media "bias," I think of the phrase "one man's junk is another man's treasure." Your opinion of my trash depends, in part, on your economic circumstance.
		So it is with bias: one man's reporting of the facts is another's indication of bias.
		In any event, the point I am trying to make here is that, to a great extent, the appearance of "bias" in any person's account of anything is dependent upon the world perspective the listener, or reader, brings with him when listening to, or reading, the words.
	dfriedman.typepad.com /dave_friedmans_blog/2005/05/bias_its_all_re.html (735 words)

	The Media Bias Page
		How to Detect Bias in the News: At one time or other we all complain about "bias in the news." The fact is, despite the journalistic ideal of "objectivity," every news story is influenced by the attitudes and background of its interviewers, writers, photographers and editors.
		The anti-Bush media bias that preceded the President's re-election was back in a big way at the end of the year when officials of the United Nations and some influential journalists started a campaign blaming the U.S. for being "stingy" and "slow" to respond to the Asian tsunami disaster.
		Media Bias on Media Bias: One of the incredible feats of media journalists is denying that there is media bias by equating it with conspiracy theories.
	akdart.com /media.html (9644 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Biased or Unbiased - A Tale of Two Interviews
		These journalists report press releases as fact without verifying them--such as the urban myth that men watching the superbowl are likely to abuse their wives.
		The solution to bias, such as it is, is love of and pursuit of the truth, especially as against one's ego and one's sensibilities and one's advantages, accompanied by relentless personal integrity and self-examination.
		Bias is an admittedly fuzzy word, and you may have a point that it has become an umbrella term covering fraud, slander, demogogurey, propaganda-as-education, and willfull ignorance.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/01/biased_or_unbia.php (12364 words)

	The God of Objectivity Is Dead - Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
		The test of a good journalist, like a good scientist, is not whether she has a predisposition but whether she is willing to abandon or modify it on the basis of evidence and argument.
		One difference, however, between scientists and journalists is that scientists lay bare their hypotheses and predispositions before they test them.
		By contrast, even very good journalists cling to the pretense that if they refuse to reveal their predispositions, this means they don't have any.
	www.slate.com /id/1006426 (943 words)

	Letters to ConWebWatch
		I've also found a NewsMax press release in which it claims it is "one of America’s leading sources of balanced news coverage." None of the self-generated press I've seen from NewsMax calls itself what it is: a right-wing news source.
		Second, NewsMax uses Christopher Ruddy's reputation as a journalist to legitimize itself as a source of journalism, despite the fact that Ruddy himself has done very little actual reporting lately and there is very little NewsMax-generated journalism on the site.
		Journalistic standards should be uniform for everyone who calls himself or herself a journalist.
	members.tripod.com /conwebwatch/letters/letterwhynm.html (426 words)

	The Emperor's Tailor
		His reference to parents and grandparents is a good one, albeit, the reality of their impact and influence is totally lost on him; but his referencing confusion between TV news in terms of public service information versus entertainment resultant from the network pursuit of market segment revenues shouldn't be.
		Citing this harsh treatment by government, and shielding modern journalistic responsibility by not only referencing the plight of America's "founding journalist," his reference as well to an American Founder adds both an historic and a "patriotic" justification for a kowtowing press.
		Considering the source, a bastion of journalistic training, expression and motivation, this is indeed a case of "physician heal thyself!" Cornog's bizarre reflections merit further examination.
	www.rense.com /general68/tailor.htm (1655 words)

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