Re: Fred Thompson attacks Fox News for being biased
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Dont all political news stories have both a "right side" and a "left side" to them?
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Fact: 12.6% of people in the US live in poverty.
This doesn't need commentary or spin to be a liberal leaning story. CNN could run with that fact straight up and it will have the effect of making many people want to help poor people with social programs. Which would get them labeled a "liberal news outlet". Fox could then run the headline of "Bush Considers Introducing Poverty Relief Bill" and that could be true but it took them a little more effort to twist it into a conservative slant.
That's a simple fictional illistration of what I meant by selection bias vs manipulation.
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