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Media bias

Media bias. From nattering nabobs to the Fox News Channel. Are the media liberal?. Credit: Media Research Center. Washington reporters vote Democratic Do personal views affect fair coverage? Should we have balanced news staffs?. Age of objectivity. Partisan press gave way to mass media

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Media bias

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  1. Media bias From nattering nabobsto the Fox News Channel

  2. Are the media liberal? Credit: MediaResearch Center • Washington reporters vote Democratic • Do personal views affect fair coverage? • Should we have balanced news staffs?

  3. Age of objectivity • Partisan press gave way tomass media • In first half of 20th century, opinion press was tiny • Broad cultural consensus,little ideology

  4. McCarthy era • Coverage exposed limits of objectivity • Edward R. Murrow (left) challenged McCarthy • Accused ofmaking news,not reporting it

  5. Civil-rights era • Media on the side of equal rights • Opponents portrayed as ignorant • Backlash gaverise to modern conservative movement

  6. Vietnam War • Reporters like David Halberstam (left) reported war was going badly • Media blamed for losing the war • Parallels today to the war in Iraq

  7. Nixon and the media • “Silent Majority” was unhappy with cultural change • White middle-class voters were trending Republican • Media seen asliberal elitists

  8. Spiro Agnew • Denounced media as “nattering nabobs of negativism” • Battled press over Pentagon Papers and Watergate • Accusation against the media lived on

  9. Ronald Reagan • Perception was that media were tough on him • Lowest moment was Iran-Contra affair • Little evidence of negative coverage

  10. Rise of conservative media • Rush Limbaugh and other radio hosts attract millions • Wall Street Journal editorial page • Fox News Channel appeals to sense of resentment

  11. William Kristol “I admit it — the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures”

  12. The so-called liberal media • Whitewater a scandal that wasn’t • Lewinsky a bigger deal with the press than the public • Gore was smeared with phony claim that he’d “invented the Internet”

  13. A theory of media bias • Mainstream is liberal on cultural issues like gay marriage • Small but influential conservative press “works the refs” • Political reporters strain not to beseen as biased

  14. Voices on the left • Small publications like The Nation • Radio hosts like Ed Schultz (left) and Stephanie Miller • Left-leaning Web sites like the Daily Kos and Blue Mass. Group

  15. An infamous interview

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