4 Feb 2023 8:28 am
RedheadedStranger » 03 Feb 2023, 9:43 pm » wrote: ↑ The media is not supposed to be biased, and they clearly are these days.
Its a lack of credibility, whether the bias supports one's position, or hurts it.
I've heard that argument before. The truth is the media has really no limits on how they choose to cover the news. You can be as conservative or liberal as you want in your news coverage. Hell, even the founding fathers saturated the colonies with anti-British literature and pamphlets. There are limits on libel and imposed rules such as the early days of television where most Americans got their news from a handful of channels. However, the notion that media needs to be unbias goes back to Hearst newspapers where the press baron created newspapers that were free from bias in news coverage as a selling point. There is no real point in saying that Fox News can't report a conservative viewpoint or CNN, MSNBC reporting a liberal viewpoint.
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.