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3 NEXUS 13 (1998)
Liberalism in the Major Media

handle is hein.journals/nex3 and id is 17 raw text is: Liberalism in the Major Media by John Hood' s the media fair? To many observers, the answer to this question is obvious. Media critics, many of them conservatives or Republi- cans, would say that the media's left- ward bias in news and entertain- ment is un- questionable. Media defend- ers, both practitioners themselves as of President Clinton's sex scan- dals in recent months is prima facie evidence that the media isn't I would submit that the media, both news and entertainment, are guilty of being biased, but that the bias lies less in political parti- sanship and more in the area of ideological blinders.... well as left-of-center critics, would say that most reporters - regard- less of ideology - strive to be fair, and that the exhaustive coverage tilted in a leftward direction. In my view, the various sides of the media fair- ness debate are simply talking past each other. Each looks among the plethora of media images we all see every day for evidence that fits a preconceived notion - that the media are either fair or biased. On any given day, in fact, there is

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