To basically all accounts, the media has a strong bias to the left. In the 08 Presidential election, it was notated that over 85% of the media supported Obama's candidacy. Because we are all human beings, our biases can't help but seep into the news articles or TV news. That's just a matter of fact. In a one month segment during the 08 campaign, positive TV coverage on Obama was around 80%, while McCain's positive press was around 35%. Do people really just think McCain was a bad guy, or didn't offer any great solutions? Or was Obama was great, he didn't deserve any media scrutiny? With the bombastic stories during the campaign of Jeremiah Wright, the association with terrorist Bill Ayers and felon Tony Rezko, along with his comments about distributing the wealth, his stand on allowing extreme uses of abortion-- it would seem like more scrutiny would head Obama's way.
One of the reasons so many on the political left throw bombs at Fox News is because they are the one source that doesn't tilt left. Do they tilt right? I would say yes. Nonetheless, when you compare Fox News against CBS News (Couric), NBC News (Williams), ABC News (Gibson), the three network news channels are extremely liberal, and have an obvious bias. In addition, if conservatives want to go to Fox News to get their "bias" news, liberals can go to MSNBC to get their liberal "bias". And when you compare Fox and MSNBC, MSNBC is far more tilted to the left, than Fox is to the right. Sure, each side has bias opinion journalists. But when a network (MSNBC) uses their opinion guys as the ones who head the news coverage, that spells trouble. In the 08 election, committed lefties Olbermann and Matthews were giving the "news" during the party conventions. And Fox News had straight down the center on his reporting Brit Hume, along with Chris Wallace. Pretty big distinction there. Beyond the TV media, the print media tilts pretty strongly to the left. You can name the largest 30 newspapers in the country, and I bet I can name on one hand the ones that have editorials that slant to the right-- Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Las Vegas Sun Review. This, while about every other paper tilts strongly to the left.
A few more media biases to consider. Although the majority of the country believe strongly in the right to bear arms, most papers and TV stations rail on the 2nd Amendment in every related court case. Just like the 2nd Amendment, the country is now more pro-life than pro-choice. Even so, the media will roast anyone who believes in the sanctity of life. They get portrayed as illiterate, not knowing the scientific issues, etc. Same goes for the Tea Party. Even though in a recent poll, 40% were either Independent or Democrat, these journalists act as if they are all red-neck conservatives who have never seen a big city. If you don't believe this analysis, just read the New York Times over the past 2 weeks. The fact is, the majority of the Tea Party movement make over 55K a year. Hardly the caricature the mainstream media is portraying them to be.
With all of this, a Rasmussen Poll just released stated that 55% believe the media bias is of more concern than the just finished Supreme Court Case revolved around campaign givings by corporations. Pretty startling numbers.
