Does The Media Have A Liberal Bias Analysis
Leigh Larralde
SOC Spring 2014
Liberal Bias in the Media When reading, “Does the Media Have a Liberal Bias” there are many topics to keep in mind while reading these two articles. First off does the media really have a liberal bias or any bias at all? Fred Barnes believes that the media has and liberal bias and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes that the media does not have a liberal bias. Both of these articles provide examples of why they believe that the media either has a liberal bias or does not have one. Fred Barnes who is a journalist, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, and TV commentator believes that the mainstream media has a liberal bias. Barnes uses the 2004 presidential election to show that most of the media wanted …show more content…
The writer can be one of the best writers to come out of school, but they will not get hired if they have a conservative view. Barnes said, “When I was at The New Republic for ten years they were quite liberal, any young person who joined the staff and wrote stories that were interesting and demonstrated that he or she could write were grabbed immediately by the New York Times or other big news papers, but not at The Weekly Standard” (6). Basically where Barnes worked they only wanted liberals there and no conservatives were to be hired. He believes that conservatives have resorted to different media such as talk radio, blogs, conservative magazines, and FOX news just to be …show more content…
She was a CIA agent who the media made her out to be an undercover CIA agent that had be outed, but she was just not an undercover agent anymore. The facts were wrong from the beginning, and the media built the story up way more then it needed to be. On the other hand there was a very serious story involving the NSA surveillance story, which was a real leak of national security. Barnes says,” not only was this important story related on an equal basis with the non – story of Valerie Plame, but the media was not interested in its national security repercussions” (7). The media did not want to report the story that had more importance to it, rather report the story and keep reporting a story that was just not
SOC Spring 2014
Liberal Bias in the Media When reading, “Does the Media Have a Liberal Bias” there are many topics to keep in mind while reading these two articles. First off does the media really have a liberal bias or any bias at all? Fred Barnes believes that the media has and liberal bias and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes that the media does not have a liberal bias. Both of these articles provide examples of why they believe that the media either has a liberal bias or does not have one. Fred Barnes who is a journalist, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, and TV commentator believes that the mainstream media has a liberal bias. Barnes uses the 2004 presidential election to show that most of the media wanted …show more content…
The writer can be one of the best writers to come out of school, but they will not get hired if they have a conservative view. Barnes said, “When I was at The New Republic for ten years they were quite liberal, any young person who joined the staff and wrote stories that were interesting and demonstrated that he or she could write were grabbed immediately by the New York Times or other big news papers, but not at The Weekly Standard” (6). Basically where Barnes worked they only wanted liberals there and no conservatives were to be hired. He believes that conservatives have resorted to different media such as talk radio, blogs, conservative magazines, and FOX news just to be …show more content…
She was a CIA agent who the media made her out to be an undercover CIA agent that had be outed, but she was just not an undercover agent anymore. The facts were wrong from the beginning, and the media built the story up way more then it needed to be. On the other hand there was a very serious story involving the NSA surveillance story, which was a real leak of national security. Barnes says,” not only was this important story related on an equal basis with the non – story of Valerie Plame, but the media was not interested in its national security repercussions” (7). The media did not want to report the story that had more importance to it, rather report the story and keep reporting a story that was just not