The End

Breaking news is ragged, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be...

Bias?

Contribution data

• Printing and publishing
• TV, movies, music

From a 2008 survey for The State of the News Media

As was the case in 2004, majorities of the national and local journalists surveyed describe themselves as political moderates; 53% of national journalists and 58% of local journalists say they are moderates. About a third of national journalists (32%), and 23% of local journalists, describe themselves as liberals. Relatively small minorities of national and local journalists call themselves conservatives (8% national, 14% local).

Internet journalists as a group tend to be more liberal than either national or local

journalists. Fewer than half (46%) call themselves moderates, while 39% are self-described liberals and just 9% are conservatives.

Among the population as a whole, 36% call themselves conservatives – more than triple the percentage of national and internet journalists, and more than double the percentage of local journalists. About four-in-ten (39%) characterize their political views as moderate, while 19% are self-described liberals, based on surveys conducted in 2007 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

• Paul Waldman, "Whose Media Bias?" The American Prospect, September 27, 2010.
• Media Matters
• Talking Points Memo
• Huffington Post

• S. Robert Lichter, Nuclear News Meltdown, Reason, March 31, 2011.
• Newsbusters.org
• Daily Caller
• Hot Air

The Future?

• Increasing skepticism
• The promise and limits of new media -- the bin Laden example