liberal bias Concepts

Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

by Ed West · 19 Mar 2020 · 530pp · 147,851 words

that Hollywood was attacking their values. And, inevitably, many of those campaigning against the film industry sounded insane, with talk of ‘the gay agenda’. This liberal bias speeded up in the 1990s, even in films that weren’t overtly political. While American Beauty featured the psycho military-obsessed conservative dad who hates

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towards both progressive politics and intellectually stimulating careers. But that cannot explain such a rapid shift, and neither can the claim that ‘reality has a liberal bias’, which even if true would show a much greater imbalance in areas where conservative politicians are more scientifically illiterate, such as chemistry. More likely is

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called Wojack who is grey and robot-like and uses phrases like ‘Did you catch the big game?’, ‘The future is female’, ‘Reality has a liberal bias’ and ‘I am excited for Disney-Marvel tentpole production #2881.’ He looks void and empty, reflecting the empty slogans we’re supposed to believe, but

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris · 5 Oct 2010 · 412pp · 115,266 words

implications after all—otherwise, surely these ancient texts would have something of substance to say against it. Could abolition have been the ultimate instance of liberal bias? Or, following Haidt’s logic, why not ask, “if physics is just a system of laws that explains the structure of the universe in terms

Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-Bubbles – the Algorithms That Control Our Lives

by David Sumpter · 18 Jun 2018 · 276pp · 81,153 words

made. Searches for Donald Trump, on the other hand, reinforced the negative image of the candidate. As in the UK, Twitter users have a slight liberal bias in the US and the way Twitter filters this bias serves to (slightly) increase it. Reading the research on Twitter and conducting my own experiments

Necessary Illusions

by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 1995

in defiance of orthodoxy and power. The spectrum of discussion reflects what a propaganda model would predict: condemnation of “liberal bias” and defense against this charge, but no recognition of the possibility that “liberal bias” might simply be an expression of one variant of the narrow state-corporate ideology—as, demonstrably, it is—and

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of William Rusher, The Coming Battle for the Media, WP Weekly, June 27, 1988). Rusher condemns the “media elite” for distorting the news with their liberal bias. Press critic David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times, reviewing the same book in the New York Times Book Review, responds with the equally conventional

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words

a consistent message. Take, for instance, the Why Do They Hate Us? question, about why the public mistrusts the press. The highest priest of the “Liberal Bias” question is Emmy-winning former CBS producer Bernard Goldberg. Goldberg crafted the modern conservative take on liberal media, beginning with a 1996 editorial in the

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Wall Street Journal entitled “Networks Need a Reality Check.” Most of the modern tenets of the liberal-bias religion are found in that early editorial, which he elucidated at greater length with a subsequent smash-hit number one bestselling book, Bias. If one

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calling media buddies and ranting off the record about what a second-rate journalist Chung was. This is all basically Genesis 1:1 of the “liberal bias” religion. Goldberg tells a true story about the upper ranks of network news being full of people who run editorials disguised as news more or

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world, but he gets even that wrong. Take this sentence, for instance, about the New York Times and its invidious failure to cover his first “liberal bias” editorial: The world’s most important newspaper, which would make room on page one for a story about the economy of Upper Volta or about

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of gorillas. Forget about lesbians in third-world counties—we don’t cover people in third-world countries period. Goldberg consistently tells his audiences that “liberal bias” is the big uncovered story. It is, he says, “the one topic that had pretty much been out of bounds on network news.” You can

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’t smoke enough crack to make that sentence seem remotely true. Liberal bias is the “one topic” network news doesn’t cover? There are so many massive stories that the national press ignores on a daily basis. We

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news broadcasts are rarely concerned with the important stories we’re not asked to cover, which are usually institutional and complex in nature. Goldberg’s “liberal bias” schtick was a significant development on the road to Trump. He took an ugly truth about the demographics of the news business and used it

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Colbert and enlightened press figures like Paul Krugman of the New York Times alike have been quick to point out, reality has “a well-known liberal bias.” 3.Therefore, ordinary people don’t really hate us. They just hate reality. This is a version of a depressingly common journalistic trope: “People just

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went public and more so since Trump’s election, there have been repeat expeditions into flyover country, in search of the elusive source of the liberal bias religion. Take Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who in late 2017 decided to tackle the issue. Sullivan was tired of the despicable abuse she

Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

by William McGowan · 16 Nov 2010 · 316pp · 91,969 words

, said that the Times’ “tenuous arguments about [the] newsworthiness” of McCain’s op-ed fed “the paper’s reputation as a vehicle for thinly veiled liberal bias.” In a cable segment on the issue, the former Clinton press aide DeeDee Meyers said it was a “legitimate question” to ask how “balanced” between

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

by Stuart Ritchie · 20 Jul 2020

by relatively weak evidence, and avoid those that go against a particular narrative, even if they’re based on solid data.99 Critics of the liberal bias in psychology have turned their fire, for instance, on the idea of stereotype threat.100 It’s the idea that girls’ mathematics test performance suffers

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words

both been accused of demoting speech that reflects conservative views while elevating liberal messages,181 even though recent research finds no evidence of such a liberal bias.182 But given their access to users’ personal data, these internet platforms could—at least in theory—deploy their power to “engineer elections.”183 They

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Christian, conservative, rightwing opinions.”226 Resembling the views of many Republicans in the US Congress, the Polish and Hungarian governments accused the tech companies of liberal bias and engagement in censorship. The Polish government even proposed a law banning social media companies from deleting content that was not contrary to Polish law

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of the US government’s focus has recently shifted from tackling authoritarian governments’ censorship practices abroad to allegations that the US tech companies harbor a liberal bias and engage in censorship practices at home. Despite these allegations, recent research shows no evidence of this anti-conservative bias in social media.126 Instead

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt · 14 Jun 2018 · 531pp · 125,069 words

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-liberal-bias-and-anti-american-values 46. Heterodox Academy condemned the Professor Watchlist. See: HxA Executive Team. (2016, November

Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism

by Sharon Beder · 1 Jan 1997 · 651pp · 161,270 words

of regulation and the distrust of business of the late 1960s and early 1970s in part to the media and what they perceived as its liberal bias. As part of the political resurgence of conservative ideas, they sought to build their own reliable media outlets and to have more influence over existing

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pestered and subjected to complaints. Various conservative media-watch organizations were set up for this purpose, such as Accuracy in Media (AIM), founded to “expose liberal bias in the media”, and the Media Institute, which included executives from major corporations such as Procter & Gamble and Mobil Oil on its national advisory board

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who is used as a source by other journalists.17) FAIR’s study of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), often criticized by conservatives for its liberal bias, also found that the majority of programming on PBS stations used conservative sources (mainly corporate) and government spokespersons, and rarely used activists such as environmentalists

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discourse.” Even the documentaries, although having more diversity of voices, still relied on the usual news sources. Nevertheless, the constant complaints from conservatives about the liberal bias of public broadcasting tends to exert an ongoing pressure towards conservatism.20 FAIR also studied US media coverage of environmental issues from April 1990 to

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’s Knee-Jerk Press’, Extra!, Jan/Feb, 19. Anon. 1994g. ‘Political Intellectual: The Old New Right’, The Economist, 2 July, 85. Anon. 1994h. ‘Debunking the “Liberal Bias” in Network News’, Extra!, Jan/Feb, 26. Anon. 1994i. ‘Public Interest Pretenders’, Consumer Reports 59 (5):316-320. Anon. 1995. ‘Environmentalism: Greenpeace means business’, The