Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Liberal media bias Message-ID: <1144@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 16:14:13 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1144 Posted: Wed Oct 17 16:14:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 18:49:58 EDT References: <558@loral.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 23 ============== 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. ============== 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". -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt