The Media Research Center’s daily Cyberalert yesterday highlighted a Dallas Morning News editorial (registration required) which amazingly took its own industry to task. The reason: liberalism in reporting!
The editors based their opinions on the results of various surveys and studies on the media. From the editorial:
“It’s time that we in the Fourth Estate admit that liberal media bias isn’t a figment of Rush Limbaugh’s imagination. Studies by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Knight Foundation have shown that, on average, journalists are much more politically and culturally liberal and secular than their readers.
“Given such a wide disparity in worldview, it’s unsurprising that readers and viewers ? that is to say, customers ? find our products to be a less reliable guide to political and cultural reality than we do. We must do a better job of providing balanced coverage and analysis.”
Meanwhile, the Associated Press keeps up its old habits in an article entitled, “Church group slams Bush on Clean Air Act.”
Think the reporter labels just what kind of “church group” this might be? Nah!
