Media bias.

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Noam Chomsky is a professor at MIT and a progressive political commentator. In his book Interventions, he said:

"...the opinion pages of daily newspapers are yet another corner of the corporate media universe where right-wing voices dominate, and the general debate extends from the far-right to the center, occasional exceptions notwithstanding."

David Kuo was the second-in-command at the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In his book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, he said:

"The mainstream media takes a lot of flack, some deserved, for being liberally biased. But that's nothing compared to its antireligious bias. Most reporters continue to think that evangelical Christians are from another planet and most couldn't name one as a friend or acquaintance. A few years ago, a New York Times reporter commented on President George W. Bush's use of the phrase 'people should take the log out of their own eye before taking the speck out of their neighbor's eye.' He said it was an odd version of the pot calling the kettle black. It was a reference to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, arguably the most famous speech in history."

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Where do you get your news?

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I said "other" for the direction of the bias because I think it depends on the paper/venue. Fox and The Washington Times are strongly right leaning, while, say, Alternet and Salon.com are by nature left leaning, and I don't think any of them are ahsamed to admit it. I tend to think that the New York Times, Washington Post, local news stations, etc try to be balanced and often succeed. But then maybe that's because I'd side with John Stewart - Reality has a well known liberal bias. Funny how many times people have mentioned him... Maybe I just don't see the bias because I share their point of view. AP and Reuters consistantly feel even-handed to me.

For news, I pull up news.google.com about once a day (used to be more often). Since the stories it shows are the ones most commonly reported, I figure it gives me a broad overview of of the most important things going on, and lets me skip over little articles that will only be refuted later. I stay away from columnists. I also have Google feed me British news about the U.K. and international stuff. Always funny when something about the U.S. comes up there that U.S. papers aren't reporting on...