Einherjar86
Active Member
Did either of you even read that study cited by the Daily Wire? Did you compare the language of the article with the language of the study?
For starters, the study isn’t about liberal bias across the media but about specifically financial journalists working with large financial industries. It does state that about 50% of all financial journalists claim to “lean left,” with about 30% moderate and the remaining conservative. But the study doesn’t say that these ideological affiliations bias their reporting; of anything, it claims that desire to maintain access to industry insiders biases them to publish positive stories.
Second, I don’t think it’s a massive revelation that lots of journalists outside of financial reporting “lean left”; but that doesn’t translate into media bias at the scale of corporate power and communications. News conglomerates are companies, and they have no financial interest in promoting left-wing economic values or models. Although certain journalists evince political biases, that doesn’t mean these translate into deep-seeded left-wing bias with media corporations themselves.
Finally, the Rasmussen polls aren’t actually about journalists’ biases but about what voters perceive as media bias. As I think is clear based on some of the posts here, bias and facts aren’t mutually exclusive; one can present facts in a biased manner. The Daily Wire article is an example of facts presented in a biased manner.
For starters, the study isn’t about liberal bias across the media but about specifically financial journalists working with large financial industries. It does state that about 50% of all financial journalists claim to “lean left,” with about 30% moderate and the remaining conservative. But the study doesn’t say that these ideological affiliations bias their reporting; of anything, it claims that desire to maintain access to industry insiders biases them to publish positive stories.
Second, I don’t think it’s a massive revelation that lots of journalists outside of financial reporting “lean left”; but that doesn’t translate into media bias at the scale of corporate power and communications. News conglomerates are companies, and they have no financial interest in promoting left-wing economic values or models. Although certain journalists evince political biases, that doesn’t mean these translate into deep-seeded left-wing bias with media corporations themselves.
Finally, the Rasmussen polls aren’t actually about journalists’ biases but about what voters perceive as media bias. As I think is clear based on some of the posts here, bias and facts aren’t mutually exclusive; one can present facts in a biased manner. The Daily Wire article is an example of facts presented in a biased manner.
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They love to say party loyalty is very important ("bErNiE iSn'T a DeMoCrAt") but hey buddy give Bloomberg a chance he's changed and he pledged to be a lifelong Democrat in 2018 and he's gonna get shit done.
