Bias in the news media ... Commercial bias: The news media are money-making businesses. As such, they must deliver a good product to their customers to make a profit. The customers of the news media are advertisers. The most important product the news media delivers to its customers are readers or viewers.
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Media have tremendous power in setting cultural guidelines and in shaping political discourse. It is essential that news media, along with other institutions, are challenged to be fair and accurate. The first step in challenging biased news coverage is documenting bias.
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"I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel."--Rupert Murdoch (Salon, 3/1/01) Years ag ... Five years ago, Fox News Channel was launched on the idea that something was wrong with news media--that somehow, somewhere bias found its way into reporting. . . . And it's not just the way you tell a...
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Evidence of Bias in News Coverage. The Media Research Center continuously reports on instances of the liberal bias in the mainstream media. Daily BiasAlerts offer a regular roundup of the latest instances of biased reporting, while our NewsBusters blog allows Web users to post their own reactions.
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UN Headquarters Bombing in Iraq Exposes US News Media Bias; Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLies.org. 19-August-2003 ... How does the US news media set its priorities? ... The US broadcast news media is clearly a model of incompetence, irresponsibility and is having a dramatic negative impact on the American people.
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(The MRC's Rich Noyes just updated our "Media Bias Basics" section with thorough rundowns -- excerpts, graphs and tables for polls going back decades -- of how the media vote, how the public views the media as well as long lists of quotes from journalists ... “Republicans and Democrats Differ in Views of News Media...
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But the debate over media coverage of the political parties and media bias is good for both the media and Jamaican democracy. ... That Cliff Hughes broke the news story (after Trevor Munroe mentioned it on the Breakfast Club) must have been a source of embarrassment for the Gorstew people. But it is ok for the moneyed class...
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Media bias is so much worse than we think it is. And I already think it's pretty alarming. ... Buying from Amazon.com? Use this link and support Alarming News. ... Here, There and Everywhere:; 2008 Wire; AmSpec; Blogometer; Conservative Grapevine; Corner; Discourse DB; Drudge Report; Hot Air; Media Blog; Note; Politico;
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WILLIAM RASPBERRY    THE WASHINGTON POST; Is Fox News promoting media bias? ... As he has said, he doesn't seek to be balanced but to balance the rest of the media, which he sees as generally dominated by left-of-center attitudes.
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