The summit was meant to quell right - wing anger over news reports that the site's «trending topics» links are chosen by curators
with a liberal bias.
A website listing faculty
with liberal bias is raising concern from Dana Cloud, Syracuse University professor who was on the list.
Not exact matches
But this
liberal - leaning
bias also comes
with a set of norms.
Although I'm not convinced that reporting on the incident reflects a
liberal bias as much as the more practical «if it bleeds it leads»
bias, it is clear that much of the rhetoric among left - wing personalities like Keith Olberman has been infused
with unfair generalities.
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.
It is a pain, but there is no human moderator
with «
liberal»
bias.
On the other hand, attempts to construct a picture of the historical Jesus have been fraught
with personal
biases to the extent that Jesus the first century Palestinian often comes out resembling nothing so much as the ideal nineteenth century European
liberal or twentieth century American conservative or twenty - first century third world radical, depending upon who is constructing this «historical» picture.
Critics argue that though Niebuhr presents
with apparent neutrality a typology of five ways that Christians have related to culture, he subtly asserts his own
liberal Protestant
bias.
R. R. Reno and others associated
with First Things expose the inequities of globalization, and the
biases that lurk under the cover of
liberal neutrality.
An «argue [ment] against God» does not, in and of itself, indicate a position
with a «
liberal bias» and one that «hates God», right?
Other research in political psychology suggests that the no campaign has had a much easier job — those inclined to political conservatism are more likely to have a «negativity
bias» in their response to environmental stimuli — conservatives have more of a physiological reaction to potential threats in the environment and subsequently devote more psychological resources towards dealing
with them: conservatives, quite literately, see more things that could go wrong than
liberals.
'' [Mrs Miller] should address criticism that there is a
liberal bias — «underplaying» the dangers of mass immigration, its «pro-EU» approach and the way it deals
with religion... The Culture Secretary's third duty is to review what the BBC does.
It would save the taxpayer a considerable sum of money and it would end a huge subsidy to a newspaper
with a strong left -
liberal bias.
«Democrats do this too, of course, but
with the
liberal media
bias, our candidates come under far more scrutiny.»
Old
Liberal campaigns continue,
with calls for constitutional change, particularly reform of the electoral system to end what is seen as the institutional
bias towards two - party politics.
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.
Perhaps the cognitive ability to consider variations that might be more successful has some correlation
with the
liberal political
bias because the authoritarian preference for fixed forms among conservatives is less adaptive.
Scientists try to avoid confirmation
bias by exposing their work to peer review by critics
with different views, but it's increasingly difficult for
liberals to find such critics.
Also in the past decade, the internet has become more prominent, giving voice to a much wider range of perspectives than can be found in academia
with its federal funding and ever growing
liberal bias.
But crucially, consensus messaging was shown in an Australian experiment to partially neutralize the
biasing influence of ideology
with conservatives showing a greater increase in belief in human - caused global warming than
liberals (Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Vaughan 2013).