“In fact, there’s little to suggest that over the past few decades news reporting has become more favorable to one party.”
You’re not fooling anyone, you know?
I’d be interested to hear of those who said “the media favors one side” which side they think it favors.
When they say “the right” I’ll know it’s time to lie down in my hobbit hole and give up the ghost.
>>>“In fact, there’s little to suggest that over the past few decades news reporting has become more favorable to one party.”<<<
Ah, yes, but lets take this little sentence apart word for word.
In fact, the writer is correct. Several decades ago the media was already solidly leftwing and favored politicians with that ideology. So the reporting has not become “more favorable” than it already was back in the day.
The writer is simply telling us that the media has been biased for a very long time, and it hasn’t changed.
And... I worked in the media for 20 years in little newspapers up and down the West Coast. The bias was extraordinary and expressed in so many ways that it would take a book to describe. Let’s just say that the ideological preferences of most reporters and editors is understated.
God help us.