by #AnthonyDiMaggio in #Salon:

"My own scholarly work, looking at decades of reporting on various public policy issues, has uncovered little evidence historically of a pervasive liberal or pro-Democratic bias in the news.

"As reporters themselves acknowledge, and as I find in my research, it is more accurate to speak of a pro-official bias in the news, in which reporters privilege whatever party is in power in Washington at a given time. None of this evidence necessarily matters, however, when the prevailing narrative in American political culture — particularly among Republican officials, right-wing pundits and much of the public — is that the media is purveying biased 'fake news.'"

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/02/what-liberal-bias-my-media-research-suggests-its-another-right-wing-myth/

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