Breaking: No Media Bias
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. ·
October 1, 2012 at 3:40am
I know that some of you may have thought that the media were ever-so-slightly biased in the way they were covering this presidential race. You know, just a little bit.
But you're wrong.
The New York Times put one of its best minds on it and he thought really long and hard about it and he says that there's no bias in the media against Mitt Romney.
So you can stop worrying about that.
I feel better now. Don't you?
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Jul '12
Re: Breaking: No Media Bias
CBS just backed up this claim on 60 Minutes tonight. They showed one letter from a viewer claiming that they were too harsh when interviewing Romney last week (while being soft on Obama), and another letter claiming the exact opposite. So... case closed.
Apr '12
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That editorial is one of the best pieces of news I've read in a while. It proves the DNC Media is getting nervous. We're making it impossible for the New York Times to continue pretending that they're a real newspaper.
Sep '10
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I imagine Jim Jones went around telling people, "We're not a cult."
Mar '11
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In other news, New York Times Claims Journalist only tell the truth. Journalist who lie are just Tabloid writers and therefore can’t work for the New York Times or any other MSN outlet who are becons of the truth.
Jun '12
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There is a chinese proverb - the more one focuses on darkness, the darker it gets.
Edited on October 2, 2012 at 5:18amMar '11
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In other news: A new study by a panel of fish has proven that water does not exist.
Apr '12
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With most low-volume news consumers getting their headlines from yahoo and google, media bias is even more accentuated by what is headlined in the "big" newspapers, Reuters, and AP.
Jul '11
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KC Mulville: There's an argument technique which is on display here.
To challenge the argument that newspapers are aligned against Romney, David Carr argues this way:
In Carr's attempt to smooth over the likelihood that 90% of newspapers oppose Romney, he picked one newspaper - the WSJ - and tried to use that one newspaper as "proof" against the notion that the media are biased. Carr even exploits the fact that this single newspaper is the most popular (mostly because it isn't nearly as liberal as the others) to shield all the others against the criticism.
The WSJ is the media. The WSJ isn't against liberals. Therefore (obviously!) how can anyone suggest that the media is biased????
This argument is a catalog of logical fallacies. · 9 hours ago
Edited 9 hours ago
It gets even better once you realize that the WSJ (non-editorial page) is THE leftiest of major newspapers!
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Aug '12
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Sort of like arguing that the NPD has no bias against Jews.....
Apr '12
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The author of the Times article reminds me of Andy Dufresne's question to the warden in The Shawshank Redemption: "How can you be so obtuse . . . is it deliberate"?
The article uses the common media trick of comparing things that are not alike. Talk radio has a political bias and admits it. The Times and major media claims it does not so you can't compare. In fact, the heart of the media's bias issue is its pretense of objectivity. The problem is not on the editorial or op-ed pages. It's the news coverage. Mickey Kaus once wrote that the problem with the Times would be fixed if it just changed its' motto from "All The News That's Fit To Print" to "A Crusading Liberal Newspaper". I agree.