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Wednesday, December 11, 2002

# Posted 7:29 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS, PART IV: Michael Kelly mocks liberal journalists for calling liberal media bias a myth. His column is good, but ends with a questionable assertion: that the personal i.e. liberal politics of the press corps determine how they cover political events. While the private liberalism of most journalists is beyond doubt, Kelly severely underestimates the influence of the professional code which governs news reportage. If personal politics were all that mattered, there would be open warfare in the newsroom between liberal, centrist and conservative journalists. Yet strangely enough, such newsroom fights are not all that common. While the news may not be as "objective" as it wishes it were, it still is surprisingly non-partisan.

For those of you interested in academic perspectives on the media's influence on politics, I recommend Timothy Cook's Governing with the News, which is a comprehensive, brief and fair-minded survey of the most recent research.
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