Media Bias And Conservative Conventional Wisdom

The conservative media ( in all it's various forms and faces ) seem to have a difficult time actually covering the news. They seem more concerned with who/whom the other media outlets are covering and why.

Case-in-point, Barack Obama.

If you watch Fox"News", read conservative blogs, or listen to right-wing talk radio, they all love to talk about "liberal media bias". It's a nice way to keep a tight, short hold on your base, but serves no greater purpose.

Via The L.A. Times.

Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week.

Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insufferable liberals.

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Such pronouncements, sorry to say, tend to be wrong since they describe a monolithic media that no longer exists. Information today cascades from countless outlets and channels, from the Huffington Post to Politico.com to CBS News and beyond.

But now there's additional evidence that casts doubt on the bias claims aimed -- with particular venom -- at three broadcast networks.

The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.

You read it right: tougher on the Democrat.

So, how would conservatives counter this?

Well, by stating that the LA Times and the CMPA are "in the tank for the Democrats" of course.