[rpierce]

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[Snickering Hound]

A media bias chart that says CNN is neutral and fair...

[left that other site]

MSNBC on a par with “Mother Jones”! LOL.

[Sam Gamgee]

Knee slapping funny that NPR and the 3 majors are neutral and Fox News is propaganda.

Even if you are a liberal you have to be intellectually dishonest to not see the bias in NBC for example.

[TBP]

I think the characterization of Newsmax, Breitbart, The Blaze, the Daily Caller, Fox News, the Daily Wire, and Conservative Tribune as "nonsense damaging to the public discourse", in the same class as "Occupy Democrats" and the National Enquirer, shows the bias of the chart itself.

And OAN, the Daily Mail, and the New York Post are considered "unfair interpretations of the news"? Really? More evidence of the chartmakers' bias.

And CNN, MSNBC, and Mother Jones are "fair"???

Are these people serious?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The planted axiom in the

“Fact Reporting/Original Fact Reporting” = "Neutral +/- a ‘skew’”

categorization is the assumption that journalism is objective. Whereas in fact every journalist, and any journalism consumer who pays attention, knows that “If it bleeds, it leads.” That is, journalism is slanted to the negative. Unless of course you count the advertisements, which only proves the point - you have to pay journalists to report good news.

But note, Dear Reader, that the assumption of journalistic objectivity is therefore an assumption that “negativity = objectivity.” And that “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a very serviceable definition of cynicism.

Cynicism is the opposite of faith, and as Thomas Paine pointed out in Common Sense, there is a very significant sense in which “government” and “society” are opposites. “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . .” It follows that cynicism towards society corresponds to faith in government. And that is precisely the combination which is observed in “objective, Original Fact Reporting.”

And the combination of cynicism towards society (a.k.a., “the market”) and naive faith in government is the defining characteristic of “liberalism.” Conservatism, OTOH, is skeptical - not cynical, but skeptical - of both society and government. Conservatism’s skepticism of government demands limits on government - but conservatism’s skepticism of society demands some government. It is conservatism which is moderate, and “liberalism” which is extreme.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

[Think Tank Citations as] A Measure of Media Bias