A good analysis by Michael Barone. Excerpt:
Let me close by quoting from my post on the first anniversary of baroneblog.
“Which brings to mind a conversation with a broadcast network news executive I remember from many years ago.
Q. Don’t you think it affects your work product that 90 percent of your people are Democrats?
A. No, no, our people are objective, they have professional standards, they report fairly.
Q. Then doesn’t that mean that your work product would be the same if 90 percent of your people were Republicans?
(Quickly) A. No, then it would be biased.
Only liberals, in this view, can see the world accurately.”
Two years ago we posted on a the definitive academic study demonstrating the magnitude of US media bias “Media Bias Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” [by Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo].
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