I have to make the argument that there is no liberal bias in the media?

For a debate at school I have to argue that there is no liberal bias in mainstream media. I happen to believe that there is a liberal bias in the media and am having trouble coming up with an argument. any ideas or evidences?|||Liberal bias in the media is measured by the personal views of journalists, rather than the people driving the platforms. To argue that because the regular worker has a particular view means the entire industry has the view is no more true than to say that just because union auto-workers might have liberal views that the automobile industry is liberal.





In fact, the bias is less left-right and more corporate. Of course the media will support issues of free speech and free press, but it will also serve to placate the views of advertisers. In fact, many "liberal" stories are buried in the editing room in favor of more sensational news stories. If the media were really so liberal, why wouldn't we hear more about the brutal beating of G20 protesters in Pittsburgh back in 2009, or last fall, when the FBI raided the homes of anti-war activists and Communists, where were the news crews giving them attention like they did at the Tea Party rallies? Every time they pointed a camera at one of those people they would say "the gov'mint is tekin' eor rights" but couldn't give examples of how they had done anything, when they could've easily gone to people whose rights had been violated and asked for their stories.





Liberal bias is a myth that's been propagated since the 70s. Corporate censorship is the real enemy.|||Yeah, on social issues (like gay rights, etc), the mainstream media is more liberal. However, on economic issues (taxes on the rich), the media is quite conservative.


The media has a profit bias, so it acts like most Americans. Most Americans are scared to doubt that the poor aren't to blame for their position, but are liberal in social issues.


Also, almost all of the media corporations are owned by super rich conservatives, so they can't be terribly liberal, or they'd hurt their poor owner.


Talking about Faux News probably wouldn't impress your teacher, as anyone with a brain realizes that it is called fair and balanced to piss off liberals.|||The easiest approach (if you just want to give a good argument for the side you have been given, and demonstrate that you have excellent debating skills) is to contend that based on what "liberal" %26amp; "conservative" actually MEAN, then accurate news will, by definition, ALWAYS be liberal, and since that is the fact, how could it be "biased"? Truth is not "biased", LOL!





Conservative MEANS "adhering to traditions and norms", whereas liberal means "exploring all possibilities"......how could ANY media hope to be accurate if it is based on "tradition" rather than the observable facts?





Consider a News story about an accident near your school.....the "liberal" approach would be to explain where it actually happened, the "conservative" approach would be to report it happened in the same spot accidents had happened before....which is "accurate"?|||There is always a bias in mainstream media; there always will be. If it isn't liberal, than it is politically correct, if it isn't P.C. then it is too conservative, and so on and so on. Mainstream media is not known for it's objectivity.


I wish you well in your endeavours but I don't think you will be able to paint a good picture concerning a liberal bias in mainstream media.|||First you have to make the argument that the word 'liberal' has a dictionary meaning, and it isn't the meaning assigned to it by the hired mouths that pimp for the current GOP/Teabag/Fox 'News' Axis. These people have redefined the word into an all purpose pejorative. 'The Liberal' is a strawman that can be assigned any though, word, deed or belief that the propaganda machine of the right wants to lay on this made up 'enemy of the people'. Let's be real...anyone who is out of sync with the movers and shakers of the talk radio right is 'a liberal', if not a socialist or a commie. If a news report or an opinion doesn't jibe with their opinion on such things as unions, the environment, war, taxes, abortion, gays, corporate regulation or anything else the reporter or the media is 'LIBERAL'! The word itself is used to discredit the information or the opinion. The word 'liberal' is used as an a red herring, strawman, ad populum or ad hominem depending on the person or opinion. 'The Liberal' is used much like Big Brother's administration used Emmanuel Goldstein....always the enemy, though an enemy that didn't exist. The democrats these days are about where the Eisenhower republicans used to be....they're not even close to being the right's made up definition of the word liberal, much less socialist or communist. Check out the real world. It's owned, controlled or influenced by an ever smaller number of massive trans national corporations....there's not a socialist in a carload in American politics and there hasn't been since the 1930's. Basically if you believe in world class public education, gay rights, women's rights, fewer optional wars, conservation, protecting the environment, the right of labor to organize, appropriate pay for a days work, decent retirement for the elderly, a minimum wage that reflect 25 years of inflation, affordable health insurance for all, not to mention liberty and justice for all you're no friend of the GOP/Teabag/Fox 'News' Axis....but you're not 'liberal' as they define the word either. You're a good and decent American. Go with that!|||Watch Rachel Maddow on the news she can give you all the help you need, and if you really observe with an open mind you will find that there is definitely a conservative bias in the mainstream media.|||It can't be done. US media gives 70% of its time to Democrat/liberal candidates (2008 campaign) compared to 30% towards Replican/Conservative candidates.|||Watch Faux News. I know, it's probably hard to stomach even for some of you who think it really is "fair and balanced".|||Hahaha good luck