The media is biased!

Bill0510
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:21:14 +0000

2) I thought I did offer a reason as to why the methodology could [not necessarily would] lead to an erroneous result. In my post #24, I said it appeared the study concluded a media source was liberal if it quoted liberal think-tanks and vice-versa. I don’t see how, just because you quote a particular source, that leads to the conclusion that you are biased towards a liberal belief. Perhaps this is valid; it just seems an odd conclusion to me. I do recognize that, presumably, the study was conducted in a scientifc way.
3) I don’t know what the entire poll has to say. [I am too cheap to buy it and it seems you may be too; or at least it doesn’t matter to me enough to buy it.] Based on what was on the Gallup poll page–hard to say if the rest of what is posted on AIM is accurately reported, just as we are discussing herin–ther e is no mention of the half/one-third comments. I think that was in the article; it may be accurate. I just don’t know. I think, however, that it is just as important to point out the accuracy aspect of the poll. [I did go to the original poll, or at leas to the extent I could given the resources. I don’t understand the “intellectually agree with the findings” comment. Does that mean you th ink I agreed with the article, which I don’t think I do, or iwth the poll, which I don’t have enough information to do.]

I agree w/ you that the NYT is a liberal newspaper. I don’t think too many reasoned people would argue with that conclusion. The editor concludes that himself. I think it is interesting that he considers it more a product of being New York’s paper than anything else, i.e. the urban, intellectual, outlook that is simply different than that of somebody who lives in Kansas.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the entire paper is wrong, no more than it means a paper in Kansas, when discussing evolution, is right.
That’s the whole point. Readers, writers, publishers, all bring their own bias to a production.
It doesn’t mean the producers are wrong. It doesn’t even mean its part of some nefarious plot to undermine GW Bush or the USA. A NY writer will cover the same event differently than a Kansas writer.
A NY reader will read or watch a production differently than a Kansas reader. That’s life.
I am just tired of people constantly carping about the “liberal” press as an easy crutch to blame.

What is the truth, for example, in Iraq? Who still believes that all is going well–or even in the right direction–in Iraq?

Does a NYT writer cover it differntly than a Kansas City Star writer? I expect so.