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VIDEO: 5 Apr: Breitbart: Epstein at Masters of the Universe Town Hall: ‘Google Favored Search Results for Clinton Over Trump’
by Lucas Nolan
Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, claimed during Breitbart News’ “Masters of the Universe” town hall tonight that Google favored positive search results of Hillary Clinton above those of President Trump...

“There’s two main things that we have found,” said Epstein. “We came up with a system, a monitoring system for monitoring search results on Google, Bing and Yahoo for nearly six months before the election in 2016. This story about our findings was broken by the Washington Post in early 2017 and here’s what we found. We found that Google’s search results favored Hillary Clinton in all ten positions of those search results on the first page for almost all of those six months leading up to the election. Now that’s enough to shift two to three million votes, at least, without anyone knowing that they have been manipulated.”...
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/05/epstein-at-masters-of-the-universe-town-hall-google-favored-search-results-for-clinton-over-trump/

Most media bias, it seems to me, is an organic byproduct of journalists' worldview, not some conspiracy to mislead the public.

I'm not sure I agree with this statement. The conspiracy lies in the uniform hiring, promotion, and rewarding of a specific world view. Anyone who disagrees is suppressed - witness the lashing out against Sinclair. The use of the phrase "conspiracy to mislead" makes this assessment pejorative.

The underlying issue is the "news" industry trying to "lead" anyone to a specific set of conclusions in the first place. That this opinion-shaping takes place under a banner of impartiality in reporting is the "conspiracy" that the author, IMO, is missing.

The fact is that Sinclair is NOT "state-run" media. If it is "state-run media" simply because it - at the corporate level - supports Trump - then it will cease to be "state-run" media as soon as we have a Democratic president and/or Congress.

The messages that local stations ae running - opposing fake news - invite listeners to critique THEIR coverage, not someone else's, and they are no more a sign of being "state run" than are the posters you will see in every KFC or McDonald's store nationwide when they are launching a new product or offer.

Journalism is inherently anti conservative. It always will be, as long as

”No news is good news” (because good news “isn’t news”). And,

Journalists never challenge the objectivity of fellow journalists.
If journalism is all about bad news, "journalism is objective” is tantamount to a claim that “negativity is objectivity.” And “negativity is objectivity” is the mantra of the cynic.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Cynicism towards society, and concomitant naiveté towards government, is what “liberalism” is.
If “Society . . . is a blessing” and “ Government . . . is a[n] . . . evil,” to “confound . . . society with government” is cynicism. We still have "writers [who] have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them.” Nowadays they call themselves “progressives.”

“One peculiar complaint about the Sinclair spots is that local anchors were being “forced” — a word widely used by those reporting on the incident — to read opinions they do not share. “I felt like a POW recording a message,” one aggrieved newsreader told CNN.”

The MISTAKE here for Sinclair is hiring metros out of ‘Journalism’ schools. DO NOT DO IT. Hire people either without a degree or with degrees where they’re not subjected to brainwashing as part of their ‘education’.