{"id":54156,"date":"2015-07-08T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54156"},"modified":"2015-07-05T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T17:28:59","slug":"the-only-real-question-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54156","title":{"rendered":"The Only Real Question Is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…what kind of pollyanna-ish rock have\u00a0the other 30% been hiding under<\/a> for the past fifty years?<\/p>\n

The “First Amendment Center” – a media puff center – survey shows 70+% of America believes the media is biased:<\/p>\n

The 2015 State of the First Amendment Survey, conducted by the First Amendment Center and USA Today\u00a0[shows] that only 24 percent of American adults agree with the statement that “overall, the news media tries to report the news without bias,” while 70 percent disagree.<\/p>\n

When the question was asked last year, 41 percent agreed, a 17-point difference.<\/p>\n

“These are discouraging results for those of us who have spent our careers in journalism,” Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center, wrote in an op-ed for USA Today on Thursday. “In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public’s not convinced.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ken Paulson must think people are idiots.<\/p>\n

One can get a story right, and still be intensely biased.<\/p>\n

This blog gets the stories right<\/em> (within the limits imposed by writing a blog that is not a full time job) – but there’s no mistaking my bias. \u00a0If you are a liberal reading this blog, you are confronted (if you’re not an idiot) by the fact that the facts have a conservative, free market, pro-liberty bias<\/i> – and I’m going to make sure you read them.<\/p>\n

Bias needn’t be a\u00a0bad\u00a0<\/em>thing – when you read European newspapers, you know which side they’re on, and can judge them based on whether they get the facts straight.<\/p>\n

American media are not only biased, but often get way too many facts wrong – or fail to present relevant facts – entirely on political grounds.<\/p>\n

You can “get the facts straight”, and still only present the sliver of the story that makes sense for your agenda. \u00a0It’s basic rhetoric.<\/p>\n

And CNN, CBS, the Strib and NPR all do it.<\/p>\n

So what\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>that other 30% smoking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…what kind of pollyanna-ish rock have\u00a0the other 30% been hiding under for the past fifty years? The “First Amendment Center” – a media puff center – survey shows 70+% of America believes the media is biased: The 2015 State of the First Amendment Survey, conducted by the First Amendment Center and USA Today\u00a0[shows] that only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54157,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156\/revisions\/54157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}