Friday, November 2, 2007
Media Bias
Harvard has released a new study which confirms the obvious; the media is biased in favor of the Democrat Party and biased against the Republican Party. No surprises here. UCLA released a similar study a couple years back (go to the bottom of the report to see the compilation of data). True to form, the Libs are asking, "What liberal media bias?" I am sure that these studies were funded by ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Bushco, the Israel Lobby, the Religous Right, and Cheney. This seems to be the fall back position of the liberals when they have nothing to support their argument.
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There are two ways of seeing this however...
We could also notice that university professors are overwhelmingly left-leaning on the political scale.
These facts often get produced to argue that both the media and institutions are biased against conservatives. There is likely some truth to it, though folks on the left end of the scale speak just as incessantly about the "corporate bias" of both the media and the university (so everyone is convinced that the media are biased against them!).
The thought that I've had (which you will probably dislike), is that here we have two groups of people--reporters and professors--whose entire occupation involves either knowing what is going on, or thinking deeply about the world. If both of these groups have a political bent, perhaps we (who aren't privileged to be able to spend quite so much time on either of these tasks) should listen.
At any rate, I don't buy the "media bias" bit much anymore, because it cuts both ways and comes from both sides, because "the media" is not so monolithic as to be subject to a single modifier, and because so much media aims to entertain rather than inform. The bias(es) are usually fairly predictable (on both sides) and getting ones news from a wide range of sources generally exposes the most important discrepancies.
Thanks for writing...
Peace,
Eric
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