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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Adventures in Media Bias

Consider these two sentences:

"Khidawi is the first assembly member to be killed since the January 30 elections."

"Khidawi is the only assembly member to be killed since the January 30 elections."

Which version do you suppose CNN.com used?

Rather stunningly, many Lefties complain about conservative bias in the news, including CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Unsurprisingly, many more complain about conservative bias at Fox News. A while back, Libertarian talk show host Neal Boortz made an interesting offer. If someone could point out to him an example of conservative bias during a news segment on Fox (and he distinguished commentaries, such as on Hannity & Colmes), he would pay some large amount of money (I think it was $10,000, but that seems a little high). He never paid out on that offer, even though he kept it open for several months.

It's a bit of a shame no prominent Lefty has made a similar offer concerning CNN.