WIKIPEDIA Support

WIKIPEDIA Support

Would seem WIKIPEDIA supports the Atheistic Liberal News Media accusation that I present.

I do not accept the concept that biased reporting is protected under the freedom of the press in the Constitution. It is free speech, but nothing more.

People should be allowed to sue the news media for liable, slander, etc.

http://narj-clirus.blogspot.com/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States

Claims of a liberal bias

Liberal bias in the media is the result of liberal principles and ideas influencing the coverage or selection of news stories.

Critics of the media say this bias exists within a wide variety of media channels including network news shows of CBS, ABC, and NBC, cable channels CNN and MSNBC as well as major newspapers, news-wires, and radio outlets, especially CBS News, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio.[13]

ABC News political director Mark Halperin supports the concept of a liberal media bias, saying that as individuals most journalists, and news producers, hold liberal political views and that these views affect their reporting.[14] In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.[15]

A 2002 study by Jim A. Kuypers of Dartmouth College, Press Bias and Politics, investigated the issue of media bias. In this study of 116 mainstream US papers, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, Kuypers found that the mainstream press in America tends to favor liberal viewpoints.[16] They found that reporters expressed moderate or conservative points of view were often labeled as holding a minority point of view.[16] Kuypers said he found liberal bias in reporting a variety of issues including race, welfare reform, environmental protection, and gun control.[16]