Media bias in the United States occurs when the media in the United States systematically emphasizes one particular point of view in a way that contravenes the standards of professional journalism. Claims of media bias in the United States include claims of liberal bias, conservative bias, mainstream bias, and corporate bias. To combat this, a variety of watchdog groups attempt to find the facts behind both biased reporting and unfounded claims of bias. Research about media bias is now a subject of systematic scholarship in a variety of disciplines. (Wikipedia)
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Chronological History of Media Bias
Media Bias Study: President’s Polls Improve Despite 90% Negative Media Coverage
The liberal media’s war against President Trump was as fierce as ever during the first four months of 2018, but the onslaught appears to be for naught: In the face of massive and hostile coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, Trump’s overall job approval rating actually rose, from 37 percent in mid-December to roughly 43 percent at the end of April. The Media Research Center studied ...
A Report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Analyzes News Coverage of President Trump’s First 100 Days
A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office. The report is based on an analysis of news reports in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC, and three European ...
Leaked Tape from Google Meeting shows Anti-Trump Bias and Promise to Fight ‘Fake News”
Seeking to reassure employees at a meeting following the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined a range of responses to the election, including “educational tools” to reach what one participant described as “low-information voters.” Captured just a few days after the 2016 election, it shows Google executives united in dismay at the outcome of the vote. Just a few days after ...
Report: The U.S. FDA has been Arm-Twisting Journalists into Relinquishing their Reportorial Independence
It was a faustian bargain—and it certainly made editors at National Public Radio squirm. The deal was this: NPR, along with a select group of media outlets, would get a briefing about an upcoming announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a day before anyone else. But in exchange for the scoop, NPR would have to abandon its reportorial independence. The FDA would dictate whom ...
Thousands of Irish Gather in Dublin to Protest Media Coverage of Abortion Following Recent Bias of 33 to 1 Pro-Abortion Articles
On 11th March, several thousand pro-life people came together in Dublin to call out the media over its bias on abortion. The evening event outside the Dáil was the first of its kind in Ireland. Media bias in favour of abortion is now so entrenched that the time for tiptoeing around the issue is over. Some journalists seem a little puzzled that for once we are ...
Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations
When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington ...
Internal email Entitled “Obama Leak Investigations” at Stratfor claimed Obama’s Then-Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan is Targeting Journalists.
On Sep. 21, 2010, Internal email entitled “Obama Leak Investigations” at “global intelligence” company Stratfor (a CIA front organization) claimed Obama’s then-Homeland Security adviser John Brennan was targeting journalists. “Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources,” writes one Stratfor official to another. The email continues: “Note — There is specific tasker from the [White House] to go ...
Paul Craig Roberts, Asst. Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy under Reagan: “”No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government…”
"No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident." The first part of the quote comes from an article on 8-17-08. Second part (un-sourced) ...
CNN/YouTube Hosted an Interactive Debate between the Republican Candidates Using a Loaded Question from an Undisclosed Hillary Clinton Campaigner
On July 23, 2007, CNN/YouTube hosted an interactive debate between the Democratic candidates in the 2008 Presidential Election, in which YouTube users submitted videos of themselves asking questions. A similar debate involving the Republican candidates occurred on November 28. This led to controversy, as they received and used a question from an undisclosed gay activist who turned out to be a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s campaign ...
18-Month LA Times Study Shows that the Press Favors Abortion Rights in their Coverage
A COMPREHENSIVE LOS ANGELES TIMES STUDY FINDS THAT THE PRESS OFTEN FAVORS ABORTION RIGHTS IN ITS COVERAGE, EVEN THOUGH JOURNALISTS SAY THEY MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BE FAIR. A four-part study of major newspaper, television and newsmagazine coverage over 18 months, including more than 100 interviews with journalists and with activists on both sides of the abortion debate, confirms that this bias often exists. Part 1. ABORTION BIAS SEEPS ...
