I dunno if I'm the person you're complaining about. I think The New York Times is pretty liberal, while the Post and the Wall Street journal are conservative. The Christian Science Monitor-- liberal, but not nasty. I've been paying close attention to NPR lately, and have caught them in some serious examples of bias; that's even before you hit the New York City NPR station that my roommate listens to.
Now, all this is relative. No mainstream newspaper will get away with being as nuts as, say, the Daily Kos, most of the time. Lancaster Newspapers may publish a morning, Democratic paper, and an afternoon, Republican paper (guess which side 'owns' the Sunday paper?) but the mainstream biases are small by comparison to, say, Rush Limbaugh's show. And even Fox news anchors once told off the Westboro Church people on air for being prejudiced and nasty.
But does that make the smaller things not 'media'? or just not "Mainstream media"?
Should we talk, instead, about the "left-leaning media" and the "right leaning media"
I think The New York Times is pretty liberal, while the Post and the Wall Street journal are conservative.
The Christian Science Monitor-- liberal, but not nasty.
I've been paying close attention to NPR lately, and have caught them in some serious examples of bias; that's even before you hit the New York City NPR station that my roommate listens to.
Now, all this is relative. No mainstream newspaper will get away with being as nuts as, say, the Daily Kos, most of the time. Lancaster Newspapers may publish a morning, Democratic paper, and an afternoon, Republican paper (guess which side 'owns' the Sunday paper?) but the mainstream biases are small by comparison to, say, Rush Limbaugh's show. And even Fox news anchors once told off the Westboro Church people on air for being prejudiced and nasty.
But does that make the smaller things not 'media'? or just not "Mainstream media"?
Should we talk, instead, about the "left-leaning media" and the "right leaning media"