Bias, what bias?????

Bias, What Bias????

There have been many arguments of late of which way the news is slanting. Is it too liberal or too conservative? Proponents of both sides would argue this differently. Conservatives would tell you there is a liberal bias, and the liberals would tell you there is a conservative bias. Either way, it would be hard to say that there is no bias at all. I recently did a debate arguing that there is a dominant liberal bias in the media. Most of the information that I came across showed a dominant liberal bias.

Me leaning a little more towards the conservative side would have to agree, but not agree fully. Yes there are tons of liberal media outlets out there, and yes it seems like all of the major ones do lean toward the left. But there are a couple out there that fulfills the needs of Conservative Americans. Fox News is one that always comes to mind when talking about conservative news.

When thinking about this, I thought that this was a little unfair. One shouldn’t have to go to Fox News to find negative news about the liberal party. When the Van Jones story aired, I waited and waited to find it in the headlines on all the major news stations. Fox news is the only one that aired anything about it. The Recent Jimmy Carter incident—only found it on Fox. One can’t argue that most of the news stations are liberal, and they sad thing is that they don’t try to hide it either. Google for one openly endorsed the Clinton Administration and refused to show ads supporting the Republican Party.

I’m not going to get into a statistical war with anyone. I’m sure both sides have facts, graphs, and data supporting their argument. So this is what I’m going to end with. I personally feel that there is a strong liberal bias in the media that can’t be ignored.