One Man's FOX is another Man's CBS.
In two other GSPM classes I have studied reliability recently. The first definition found on Google for “reliability” is:
The extent to which a measurement instrument yields consistent, stable, and uniform results over repeated observations or measurements under the same conditions each time. For example, a scale is unreliable if it weighs a child three times in three minutes and gets three different weights.
In reading the some blogs concerning Dean’s statements recently, I was amazed with the how both conservatives and liberals think that main stream media (MSM) is biased, against them.
Note examples:
The American Thinker The double standard lives Democrats get cut such double-standard slack from the MSM when it comes to public statements that no ill effects would result.
In Search of Utopia The Democratic Party - Version 2005 Folks, this is the Democratic leadership making the best of a bad, Conservative media-dominated situation!
Libertarian Librarian A Clarification I don't want a counter to the liberalness of the MSM-- I think talk radio and Fox News and blogs are doing an adquate (sic) job of that-- I just want the MSM to realize that they are, in fact, biased to the left.
I wander if there will ever be a standard measurement for media bias that will be agreed upon by liberals and conservatives alike, but alas I am sure that will never happen.
I am a little afraid to ask, but I will anyway. What do you think? Is the media biased against you? Does anyone out there think the media is biased in favor of them?
The extent to which a measurement instrument yields consistent, stable, and uniform results over repeated observations or measurements under the same conditions each time. For example, a scale is unreliable if it weighs a child three times in three minutes and gets three different weights.
In reading the some blogs concerning Dean’s statements recently, I was amazed with the how both conservatives and liberals think that main stream media (MSM) is biased, against them.
Note examples:
The American Thinker The double standard lives Democrats get cut such double-standard slack from the MSM when it comes to public statements that no ill effects would result.
In Search of Utopia The Democratic Party - Version 2005 Folks, this is the Democratic leadership making the best of a bad, Conservative media-dominated situation!
Libertarian Librarian A Clarification I don't want a counter to the liberalness of the MSM-- I think talk radio and Fox News and blogs are doing an adquate (sic) job of that-- I just want the MSM to realize that they are, in fact, biased to the left.
I wander if there will ever be a standard measurement for media bias that will be agreed upon by liberals and conservatives alike, but alas I am sure that will never happen.
I am a little afraid to ask, but I will anyway. What do you think? Is the media biased against you? Does anyone out there think the media is biased in favor of them?
4 Comments:
Re: Reliability is giving the same answer, all the time.
For another class, I'm reading former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleichers' book Taking Heat . He does make one good point: there is a journalistic obsession with getting the facts first, instead of taking the time to see how things turn out, that the public can be a little misinformed. For instance, when the Bush Administration announced that Cheney was in the hospital, and they later found it was a mild heart attack after the announcement, the press flipped out, saying that Bush had covered up the reality of Cheney's health. What is the solution? Do we wait to tell the media until we have solid answers? Journalists hate that. If we constantly update people throughout the day, does giving different information make the news outlet unreliable? Similarly, for John Kerry, he did see issues as nuanced, and people who didn't think critically didn't vote for him. They saw him as changing his mind and therefore unreliable. Is the ability to see different sides of the issues, to see not just in black and white but also in gray, do these qualities make a source unreliable?
nice point! I think everyone will always think its against them.
I think Al Franken put it best when he wrote that trying to determine if the media is liberal or conservative is like worrying whether Al Quada puts too much oil in their hummus: it's hardly the most important part of the problem.
The media is biased towards simplicity, ease of storytelling, cheapness, conflict, sensationalism, immediacy, skepticism, and human tragedy; the ideological bias is peripheral if not nonexistant. However, given the nature of these biases, the media seems to work against everyone at one point or another (except for moderate legislators). So it always seems like they are biased against your side...
I don't think liberals and conservatives will ever be able to agree when it comes to the bias of the MSM. Just remember, Fox News is only one source, and how many more are there?
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