The media is overwhelmingly bias to the left. The New York times did a poll of news reporters and editors during the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections. 9 out of 10 stated that they were planning on voting for Gore and Kerry respectively. This was an obvious advantage for both Gore and Kerry. This is an excellent video on liberal media bias and asks the question, "Should reporters state your political agenda before they report the news?"

Why is this a good question? Because people like Dan Rather try to change the outcomes of election and state that they are not biased.

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The media will never be completely unbiased. There will always be some sort of under-tones meant to manipulate people. The solution is to arm yourself with more information than what is being shown to you by whatever media source you are enjoying at the time. I would hope that most people are not so easily persueded by the media, but take the war in Iraq, for example, and you know that is not true. Everyday it's about how many troops were killed, how many innocent Iraqi's were slaughtered, not that fact that a slum in Baghdad has it's first sewage line ever, or fresh running water that its been lacking for the last 5 years. A hundred small accomplishments can be overshadowed by just one death. Sadly though, hope and happiness do not sell in todays media, only death and violence. ... and on, and on... the souls of those lost in Iraq and elsewhere in the world feed the media machine.

-Ghost

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I think the US media should destory the facade of journalism they try to sell us.

I have long advocated we just go the route of Europe: have the papers openly state what side of the political/social landscape they are going to pitch their tent and stick with it. The New York Times should just keep doing what its doing but be more open about it. Become the Le Monde of America.

Time and Newsweek should stop pretending and acknowledge they are playing the same style game as The New Republic and National Review.

What really opened my eyes was the advent of cable TV - and I'm talking long before CNN-Fox News went the way of Europe.

I mean --- my eyes were thrown open when --- the growth in news outlets, with news shows on all the time around the dial --- made it so everywhere you turned ----

---- a reporter or news editor or publisher -- but esepcially the reporters - were guests, and in this format, they freely exposed their bias. On these shows, they were not "reporting" news, they were "analysts".

In the past when the number of chanels were much, much fewer, these style shows actually had as guests people in the news: congressmen, foreign leaders, big business people, and so on.

Now, it is the reporters themselves taking on the role of guru.

It really made me start to look back and realize the news has always been bias even when they hid it better.