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To: KonKilo who wrote (12584)	3/6/2006 3:31:14 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543414

Sometimes its subtle, other times its not the news article itself but the overall selection of articles. Neither type would do as an example. Also while I could find a specific example without too much difficulty it wouldn't mean much, you can find specific examples of all political leanings. A liberal could reply with an example that is biased towards Republicans or conservatives. That happens less often but such stories are not non-existent. In general reporters are much more liberal than the general population. Even when the reporter tries to be fair (and I think they often, perhaps usually do) that is going to cause some bias. The bias is balanced somewhat by FOX News, and by talk radio, which is more likely to lean right. Interestingly most conservative news and opinion sources will explicitly call themselves conservative, while the liberal sources won't necessarily do that. (FOX News being one exception, it doesn't call itself "the conservative news source" or anything like that, it calls itself "Fair and balanced" and says "We report, you decide". OTOH it is probably less biased to the conservative side than the explicitly conservative sources. One thing I notice is that when you have a conservative and a liberal debates some issue, the conservative is often labeled as such, the liberal is less likely to be. That is pretty subtle but it can make it seem like one extreme is battling it out with the center or moderate position. Also the news media (at least the non-conservative media) provides some very biased peices about gun control. Despite my comment about specific examples not necessarily proving anything I'll give some in my next post. Tim

To: KonKilo who wrote (12584)	3/6/2006 3:45:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543414

Examples - MSNBC versus NBC News. MSNBC's David Shuster, at the top of Thursday's Hardball, and NBC's Lisa Myers at the start of the NBC Nightly News, played the identical soundbites from Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center warning, on Sunday August 28, about his "grave concern" the levees in New Orleans could be "topped," and a clip of President Bush four days later maintaining that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." But they used the soundbites to prove opposite assessments. Shuster contended that Mayfield's video "seems to contradict what President Bush said about Katrina" since Mayfield's warning "clearly" means that "the President's team did anticipate the breach." Lisa Myers, however, recognized the meaning of words and how water flowing over a levee, topping it, is not the same thing as a breaching, the collapse of a levee, which is what occurred. Myers explained: "Today Mayfield told NBC News that he warned only that the levees might be topped, not breached, and that on the many conference calls he monitored, 'nobody talked about the possibility of a levee breach or failure until after it happened.'" ... mrc.org Also there are the recent polls that show Bush with a still lower approval rating than he had recently had. Nothing intrinsically biased about that result but the % of Democrats in the poll had increased, and is larger than the percentage of regisitered Democrats in the population as a whole. mrc.org Also there is all the focuse on problems with the response to Katrina being Bush's fault, and a lot less focus on the Democratic mayor of NO and governor of LA. -- President Bush arrived in Pakistan "like a drug dealer...under cover of night," according to MSNBC's Chris Matthews. mrc.org