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This 5 page paper looks at media bias. On one side are the conservatives, the Fox viewers who watch loops of news updates all day, and complain that media is leftist, and on the other, are those who believe that media is actually conservative, at least underneath it all. This paper looks at both sides of the issue, but argues that in the end, it really does not matter. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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media is leftist, and on the other, are those who believe that media is actually conservative, at least underneath it all. While the typical view is that media is leftist
is taken by most, there is a side that claims that there is nothing further from the truth. Why? The owners of these mega-media corporations are rich. They usually have
conservative values. At the very least, they are fiscal conservatives. If that is true, how can news media be liberal? Perhaps they cater to the general public. They may want
to gain market share by reacting to the liberal mentality. Still, their own personal views are very far from liberal. They are only in the game for the money.
That is not the whole story. There are people on either side of the fence, screaming that the media is either liberal or conservative. Bernard Goldberg and Ann Coulter are
two individuals in the spotlight who claim that media is liberal. Alterman (2003) writes: "In her second book-length primal scream, published in the summer of 2002, Coulter compared Katie Couric
of the Today show to Eva Braun" (p. 4). Coulter goes on to call many people in the media dimwits, birdbrains and a half-wits, for example (Alterman, 2003). While clearly
to the right, Coulters rants appear infantile. Bernard Goldberg also sees media as liberal but some see him as a disgruntled ex-employee. Neither author has credibility in terms of objectivity.
Goldberg (2003) accuses people in the business of slanting stories. In some way, he is correct in that it is difficult for media to get away from sponsors. Goldberg (2003)
writes: "I kept thinking of how my colleagues treat cigarette, tire, oil, and other company executives in the media glare" (p.3). An obvious notion is that television is lubricated
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