Civil Liberties: Press Freedom -- Media Bias

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Figure 1.-- There are many forms of media bias. One form of bias is to provide only one side if the issue or to mistate the conservative case. Amother form is to ignore coverage of issues that do not fit into the Liberal narrative. If the issue becomes to big to ignore like say the Tea Party, then the coverage that begins tends to be highly negative. Here we see an anti-abortion rally in Copley Square, Boston. These and other other issues that do not fit into the Liberal narative tend to be poorly covered by the media. And if they become too important to ignore, the media coverage is largely negative.

Freedom of the press and expression is so important in the develoment of the West that a modern issue needs to be addressed--media bias. Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of not only journalists and news producers, but also entertaiment media, movies and television as well as academia where journalists are educated. It is important to consider not only the actual article printed or delivered on air, but the selection of events and stories that are reported. By media bias, we mean not the report of a single or small group, but pervasive, widespread bias that violate the standards of professional journalism. Here is should be stressed that journalist standards clearly establish media boas as unprofessional. There is no doubt that media bias exists--an overwhealming liberal bias. This has led many iberals to deny that their is a liberal bias despite the overwhealming evidence that it exists. This denial is in part dishonest and in part the academic training which presents liberal ideas as absolute truth and conservaive thinking as flawed if not actually evil. Now of course media bias is not new. In many if not most socities, the state cintrolled the media or expression in the pubic fiora. Here we are taklking about media in free siocities which until recently have mostly been centered in Western Europe and North America. Here we see bised reporting, but we see media partisans on both or multiple sides of major issues. What we see today is very different. The news media, Hollywood, and academia are overwheamingly dominated by a liberal outlook. Conservaies are vurtually absent in Hollywood, a small proportion on campus, and vrtual xcklision from the main-line media. The result is not only biased reporting on not only politics, but in a range of social and economic issues, including abortion, conflict, crime, drugs, economic activity, gender, immigration, police, race and ethnicity, religion, and other issues. This all varies from country to country, but the phenonon in Western Europe and North America seems very similar, albeit more prnounced in Western Europe. Fox News and the Tea Party seemed go have been particularly Anmerican. In recent years there seems to be growing populism in Europe. This has occurred despite the media's drumbeat of PC thought condeming much of the populist movement. The media in America first ignored the Tea Party and finally unable to ignore the impact of the Tea Party condemned it. The same is true in Europe. Populim in Rurope is now growing, fed most cospiculously by ilegal immigration. The American conservative thread is more lacking than in Europe, almost unique. There are national and international watchdog groups that report on bias in the media.







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Created: 7:36 AM 6/21/2018
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