Re: Mark Halperin acknowledges liberal media bias
Anyone who thinks CNN is 100% fair and Fox News is right wing is crazy.
Anyone who thinks Fox News is 100% fair and CNN is left wing is crazy.
CNN (and most other major news media) clearly lean left and Fox News (and a handful of new organizations) clearly lean right.
The reason Fox News got so popular so fast was due to the right wing ire over the liberal media. Fox News pandered to them (the first time anyone had in a long time) and now our news media is about as polarized as politics are.
I don't think any of these biases are intentional, I don't think they meet before the news airs and say "Ok boys, how are we gonna spin it tonight?"
I think it's just natural beliefs seeping out.
The communications department at my college was the hotbed of liberal thought on campus. Do you really think that most major news organizations have a roughly 50/50 split of right winers and left wingers, particularly in positions of power?
When a news organizations employs 90% liberals it's only natural the coverage is going to lean left, even without them trying or noticing (and the converse for Fox News)
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