Letter to the editor of one newespaper:
Is the nation’s media liberal or conservative?
We regularly read letters from conservative contributors charging that the media are liberal-biased. But is this a fact? Are news broadcasters actually left-wing progressives? Or are such allegations merely a simple-minded way to reject commentary you don’t happen to agree with?
A study just completed by the media watchdog group, Media Matters, documents every Sunday morning political program on ABC, CBS, and NBC over the last nine years. Of nearly 7,000 guests who appeared during the administrations of Presidents Clinton and Bush, between 61%-69% were right wing! And prior to the 2004 Presidential election, it approached 80%!
While these findings should once and for all debunk the liberal-bias myth, they won’t; future letters to the editor will undoubtedly continue to perpetuate the myth of the “liberal media.”
One newspaper runs a section called "Street Talk." This week the question was "What characteristics do you look for in a political candidate?"
This comment made me
: "Honesty, and Bush isn’t."Catherine
