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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: On Moderate Bias
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias: Time's Media Writer Argues Media's Dominated by a 'Moderate Bias'
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Great article from #Time about perceived media bias http://bit.ly/Hdgdw 13 days ago |
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Finally someone's got it right! http://tinyurl.com/yfngxtx ...Informed & truthful news does not mean equal coverage for opposing views! 14 days ago |
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@jaketapper On "partisans" you really need to read http://bit.ly/Hdgdw James Poniewozik recognizes something you apparently do not. 17 days ago |
On Moderate Bias
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Time notes that most discussions whether the news media is biased overlooks the most significant bias out there: moderate bias.
"As anyone following health reform knows, centrism is a political position too. And you see moderate bias -- i.e., a preference for centrism ...
Time's Media Writer Argues Media's Dominated by a 'Moderate Bias'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The latest Pew poll found people see Fox News as conservative, but Time media writer James Poniewozik noted large numbers also thought the major networks were liberal. That must mean it’s time to assert the media has a "moderate bias." This is defined, as liberals usual define it, as pretending conservative idiocy isn’t idiocy: ...
Balance
Eschaton —
The bubble around the Village is strong. (It is really tempting to muck up the metaphor by making a Prisoner reference, but I will refrain.) But when you see a crack, it is worth noting. TIME Pretty plainly, Fox News is full of conservative opinion hosts, while its news wing has fixated on anti-Obama causes célèbres from ACORN to the tea-party protests. (Equally plainly, the White House is not concerned about fighting the bias of, say, MSNBC hosts who agree with it.) But Sean Hannity's Republicanism, Beck's populism and Mike Huckabee's Christian ...
