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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Liberal media bias
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 16:14:13 EDT
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     Certainly, one can pick up a copy of a conservative paper such  as  the
Wall  Street  Journal or numerous local papers, or a liberal one such as the
NY Times or Washinton Post, and find shadings of bias in the reporting.  The
fact is, there are thousands of publications, all different.

     What bothers me more is the liberalism of the electronic  media.  There
are  really  a  very  few  nationwide  sources  of radio and television news
reporting, and the accent there is decidedly liberal.
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Before starting to read the Usenet, I never would have BELIEVED that
anyone could say this about the US media.  They have an incredibly
strong conservative bias, exceeded only by about half of the posters
to this net.  I have often wondered how much of the "everybody's
out of step but our Johnny" attitude of Americans to the rest of the
world is due to this bias, which seems to feed on itself and produce
even more wonderfully conservative "thinkers".
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Martin Taylor
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