This election has me thinking about Media Bias and the limits and strength of that bias. I can’t imagine the media being more in the bag for Hillary Clinton and more hostile to Donald Trump than they are now. Well, I take that back; I could imagine it. I have to watch the BBC and the only thing they report is perceived verbal gaffes by Trump or his surrogates and never mention Hillary’s email or health problems. From watching the BBC alone you would think that Hillary was in a coma somewhere and Trump went around only saying dumb things when he is not admitting that Obama was born in the US.

Which brings me to the limits of media bias. It seems the media operate with certain constraints that limit the effectiveness of their bias and these constraints are found in their the nature of their business and the nature of their audience. I also think this election campaign has revealed to us some of the strengths of media bias, basically when the bias is the most powerful, and also revealed a real weakness that we might exploit in the future.

Wherever we stand on Trump, we are still all Conservatives and we will be dealing with media bias far into the future. The better we understand the phenomena, the easier it will be to overcome. Let’s get to looking to the limits. When a person becomes defined in the public mind, media bias has limited effect on changing that perception.