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Liberal Dan Rather Hates America.
Dan Rather makes no attempt whatsoever to hide his absolute contempt for George Bush during his newscasts. Read what happened last week during the Northeast power blackout.
Undisclosed media bias David Limbaugh
(Liberals: Insert your usual HATE-filled vicious personal attacks and flames HERE if unable to refute a single thing in this article)
It is undeniable that the overwhelming majority of news anchors and reporters for the major television networks are politically liberal. It is no less deniable that their biases often affect their reporting. While conservatives have long complained about this imbalance in ideological representation in the major media, their major beef is not with the bias itself, but with the media's fundamental dishonesty about it and how it colors their objectivity.
It is, of course, theoretically possible for a journalist not to inject his views into his reporting. But the more involved he is in the process, from news selection and emphasis, to editing and delivery, the less likely he will be able to resist the temptation to slant the news.
If an anchor's duties, for example, were limited to merely reading the 22 minutes of copy of the nightly news, he might be able to avoid any inflection that would reveal his leanings. But the involvement of most anchors greatly transcends mere reading. They often select the news and play a major role in writing or editing the copy.
There's nothing wrong with a commentator allowing his ideological persuasion to influence his opinion segment; indeed, it would be impossible for it not to. But when broadcasters furtively insert their biases into 'news' segments, they are passing off their opinions as news
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