Conservative bias is the mirror image of liberal bias, a belief that the media is biased in favor of conservative views. Rarely spoken of directly, liberals tend to reference conservative bias by speaking sarcastically about "the Liberal Media", or "the evil Liberal Media". On many liberal blogs, this arises in the acronym "SCLM", for "So-called liberal media". This is typically characterized by the belief that the politics of the owners of the news media, rather than the politics of the reporters, is the primary source for bias. For example, many supporters of the belief in conservative bias will claim that president Bill Clinton was given harsh treatment by the media compared to president George W. Bush. Naturally, believers in liberal bias express the belief that Clinton was treated better by the media than Bush is. Liberal bias is a common phrase used in American political discourse to express the view that the American media generally has a liberal bias. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... In politics, the term liberal refers to: an adherent of the ideology of liberalism —an ideology espousing liberty. ... The first use of the term weblog. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... Order: 42nd President Vice President: Al Gore Term of office: January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001 Preceded by: George H. W. Bush Succeeded by: George W. Bush Date of birth: August 19, 1946 Place of birth: Hope, Arkansas First Lady: Hillary Rodham Clinton Political party: Democratic William Jefferson Clinton (born... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is a politician and currently the 43rd President of the United States. ...

History

Allegations

Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News is one of those who argues against any significant liberal bias. Reviewer John Moe sums up Alterman's views: Eric Alterman is a liberal American commentator, author and activist, and is currently a political columnist for The Nation. ...

"The conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth. Further, the perception of such a bias has cowed many media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to counterbalance a bias, which does not, in fact, exist." [1]

Opposing views

Notes

See also

• FOX News
• Rush Limbaugh
• Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
• Rupert Murdoch
• Richard Mellon Scaife
• Conrad Black
• Media bias
• Matt Drudge
• Hostile media effect

The FOX News Channel is a US cable and satellite news channel. ... Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is an American radio talk show host. ... Bill OReilly William James Bill OReilly, Jr. ... Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931), Australian-born American media proprietor, is the major shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ... Richard Mellon Scaife Richard Mellon Scaife (born July 3, 1932) is an American billionaire philanthropist and owner–publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. ... Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, PC (born August 25, 1944 in Montreal, Quebec), is a Canadian-born British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ... Media bias is a real or perceived tendency of journalists and news producers within the mass media to approach both the presentation of particular stories, and the selection of which stories to cover, with an unbalanced perspective. ... Matt Drudge Matt Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet news personality who is frequently called a cybergossip. He is best known as the proprietor of the popular U.S.-based Drudge Report website, which made national waves when it was the first to break the news of... The hostile media effect, sometimes called the hostile media phenomenon, refers to the finding that ideological partisans consistently tend to think that media coverage is biased against their particular side of the issue. ...

External links

• Media Matters (liberal site claiming to correct conservative misinformation)
• Media Research Center (conservative site claiming to expose liberal bias)
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (liberal site claiming to expose conservative bias)
• Fairpress.org - Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (conservative site claiming to expose liberal bias)
• Pew Research Center For the People and the Press (non-partisan organization studying attitudes towards the press)
• The Myth of the Liberal Media - A lengthy Bartcop rant about how many people make a livelihood out of lying about liberals.