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cliffelam · 4653 days ago · link · · parent · post: Jay Rosen: NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right
The reason people use stereotypes is because they are so often accurate. When I lived in England I was unable, for a long time, to map reporting to political positions because their "labor," "liberal," and "conservative" don't map to how we think about that in the US. Double-ditto, weirdly, for when we lived in Oz. Plus their hot-button issues either don't exist in the US (ex: Aboriginal rights) or ours don't exist there (ex: "free" healthcare). But sometimes freeing yourself from the details helps you see that there is a thread running through the news you see from Newspaper A versus Newspaper B.
So it's not "if you are going to get a bias" it is how big is the bias. Looks pretty big to me. But then the pro-business side of the WSJ looks pretty big to me too, as does the conservative slant on Fox. I can't recall, actually, a media organization that didn't look pretty slanted to me. -XC