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mediabistro.com: TVNewser: 'The News Audience, if not News itself, is Getting more Polarized'
| Great article from #Time about perceived media bias http://bit.ly/Hdgdw 6 days ago |
| Finally someone's got it right! http://tinyurl.com/yfngxtx ...Informed & truthful news does not mean equal coverage for opposing views! 8 days ago |
| @jaketapper On "partisans" you really need to read http://bit.ly/Hdgdw James Poniewozik recognizes something you apparently do not. 11 days ago |
'The News Audience, if not News itself, is Getting more Polarized'
mediabistro.com: TVNewser —
... In this week's edition, out tomorrow, media critic James Poniewozik writes about "the most significant bias out there: moderate bias." ...
Dead Tree Alert: The Third Bias
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My column in this week's print TIME expands on a bullet point from my post a week ago , on the Pew Research poll that asked TV viewers whether they believed the networks they watched had a liberal or conservative bias. The problem with this dichotomy, used not just by Pew but media critics all over, is that it overlooks what is the mainstream media's most common bias—moderate, or establishment, bias: the effect is to bolster centrist political positions — not least by implying that they are not political positions at all but occupy a happy medium between the nutjobs. ...




