And it belies a sort of
liberal bias which treats all religions as mere shades of the same color.
Not exact matches
A very basic example of confirmation
bias in daily life, in
which people look for information that supports their existing notions and views, is the preference of conservatives to watch Fox News and of
liberals to watch MSNBC.
Contrary to the oft parroted «
liberal media
bias,» mainstream media is subordinated to a
bias filtered toward the corporate interests of its private media owners, of
which many are right leaning.
The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about
liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview
which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.
In the broadcast era, TV news was the number - one broadcast - era gatekeeper,
which is one reason conservatives still rage against a «
liberal media» and «media
bias» that they saw as directed towards them.
This view of mass media as being partisan and untrustworthy was popular among Republicans well before Trump's entrance to political arena (and accounted for a big reason of popularity of Fox News cable channel,
which positioned itself as «not
liberal biased» from the start).
That
liberals are just as guilty of antiscience
bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in
which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.
When talking and thinking about the Blaine Amendments, we should focus not only on the prejudices and
biases of Nineteenth Century Brahmins, Radical Republicans, and Klansmen, but also on the ongoing arguments of
which these Amendments are a part: about education, citizenship, tolerance and pluralism in a secular,
liberal state.
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which describes itself as «America's leading media watchdog in documenting, exposing and neutralizing
liberal media
bias.»