One difficult thing about dealing with the whole media bias issue is the problem of where you draw the center line. People, and media outlets, can easily be classified as left of center by the standards of one community, and right of center by the standards of another. Much also depends on the issues you use as your right/left criteria. I run up against this often, much to my amusement. Among many of my associates and friends I am classed as a solid right winger, being pro-globalization, pro-foreign investment in the 3rd world, fiscally conservative, generally pro-capitalist, highly suspicious of fundamentalist environmentalism, feminism, etc. In a place like SI, I move to the left of center, owing to a fairly liberal view on most social issues and a fairly cautious set of foreign policies.
In either case, I haven't moved; the center line has.
It's hard to decide whether any given media outlet inclines to the left or right of center until you have an acceptable consensus definition of the center, which I've yet to see. |
