“The problem with the media is not outright bias, but an intellectual mono-culture that fails to exercise the most basic skepticism when stories fit their narrative.”

That quote deserves to be repeated over and over and over again. We used to have these grouchy crustacean-like editors sitting at desks across the newsrooms in America, grouching and grumbling about everything, sneaking sips of whiskey here and there, and likely telling sexist jokes. Most were liberal, as in, World War II liberal — but they were old-style men who DOUBTED things. They loved accuracy. They loved facts.

Those men are gone.

But I gotta say bias isn’t just one-sided. I’ve seen equal amounts of liberal and conservative bias following different fact-checking sites on political campaigns and such. There’s actually been studies that show that if someone has a prior belief about something they can receive the same set of facts about something and come to different conclusions than someone with the opposite set of beliefs.

But the media should have a higher standards.

Bob

The only things your can absolutely believe in the popular media are the sports scores, and the closing stock prices, although the stock prices can actually change after the closing of the exchange. All the rest should be considered suspect, because it is susceptible to manipulation or ignorance of the “journalist”.

It is interesting that modern “journalists” now want to stifle political commentary by non-“journalists” by changing the constitution to only protect speech that they produce.