Liberalism in the Major Media

Is the media fair? To many observers, the answer to this question is obvious. Media critics, many of them conservatives or Republicans, would say that the media's leftward bias in news and entertainment is unquestionable. Media defenders, both practitioners themselves as well as left-of-center critics, would say that most reporters — regardless of ideology — strive to be fair. But the various sides in this debate are just talking past each other.

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Author John McDonald Hood Sanford School of Public Policy