Time not biased? Just score based on count of columnists.
The media has become the the guy in the joke who, when his wife discovers him in bed with another woman, flatly denies that the woman is even there, exhorting the wife with: “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
When it comes to media bias, I’m going with my lying eyes.
Unless the public is right on the cusp of getting sick of all the fawning converage of The One that has been shoved down their throat for a year. Combine that with an attack on a 17 year old pregnant girl, and you have political dynamite.
The best thing about this is that McCain now has to see the press was always using him to get at other Republicans. They could have cared less about McCain, personally or as a politician.
As soon as he IS the Republican, into the dumpster with him. His constituency now includes conservatives. That can only bodes well for the results of a McCain administration--he may actually start taking our opinions into account.
Without going beyond the blurb I’ve got one error. “Bias” wasn’t published until February 2003.
I once heard Pat Buchanan say this same thing, basically that if you have strong personal political views you cannot help but let them seep into your work.
Then of course there are the Keith Olbermann’s of the world who have their agenda and no inclination to try to hide it.
The question assumes it cannot be both at the same time.
Both are true: the media is biased AND it is a good tactic to tell the truth.
Both are facts the media refuses to understand.