Liberal Social Media Bias

Novelist Graham Greene once said “Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.” The quintessence of the media is to be objective and to show all sides of the story. However, as of recent, the media has not been objective in its reporting, which is bad journalism. Although there are most definitely media biases, the persistent idea that the media is inherently liberal is a myth. The mainstream media does not have a liberal bias because the media outlets simply accommodate their consumers, conservative media bias is very evident, and Republicans are the main demographic that believe in liberal media bias. First off, media outlets cater to their consumers’ opinions and political leanings in order to maximize profit. It is
In fact, in a new book by two Indiana University professors, they discover in “a visual analysis of television presidential campaign coverage from 1992 to 2004 suggests that the three television broadcast networks- ABC, CBS, and NBC- favored Republicans in each election”(Liberal Bias?). The Republican candidates were found to have been given more flattering angles and visuals, and as Indiana professor Erik Bucy said, “Visuals are underappreciated in news coverage. You can have a negative report. You can have the journalist being opinionated against the candidate. But if you’re showing favorable visuals, that outweighs the net effect on the viewer almost every time” (Liberal Bias?). Even when a Republican candidate may be reported about negatively, they are still given more favorable angles than Democrats, showing an underlying, but paramount bias that can only be observed when carefully scrutinized. Lastly, what is a better example of conservative media bias than the persistent media presence of climate change deniers, despite the fact that they are a minority in the scientific community. As reported in an article written by award-winning investigative reporter Nick Fillmore, “‘No Need to Panic about Global Warming,’ was the headline for an opinion article that appeared on May 19 in ‘The Wall Street Journal,’ the business newspaper most trusted by the business community… The most telling point about the article is that the group behind its publication could get only 16 scientist and academics from around the world to sight it”(Fillmore). This article was only endorsed by 16 scientists in the world and yet it was published in “The Wall Street Journal”. If that is not media bias, than one does not know what is. Additionally, this blatantly unsupported information has a large impact on the American