Sentences with phrase «false balance remains»

The «balance as bias» thesis from the paper remains frequently cited today when bloggers, scientists, and others assert that false balance remains a widespread problem, even among mainstream media.

As discussed at the opening of Chapter 3, the «balance as bias» study by Boykoff and Boykoff examining coverage through 2002 was famously featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and remains widely referenced today when bloggers such as Joe Romm assert that false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coverage.

Not exact matches

It's true that Time may have lost some of the subtleties regarding the remaining uncertainties, but their reporting comes much closer to conveying the true state of the subject than the «false balance» model which would quote Bill Gray one time for each time or two you quote Suki Manabe.

As mentioned, outlets such as the NY Times and The Washington Post remain the subject of claims by bloggers and advocates that these news organizations engage in consistent patterns of false balance in coverage of climate change.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

Such beliefs are utterly negated by the sheer wealth of evidence against such a proposition, but remain popular due to an often - skewed false balance present in partisan media [20, 21], resulting in public confusion and inertia.