Media Bias

I have long held that there is a Bias in the Media. Figuring out just what kind of bias is the hard part. Is it a Left Leaning Bias, or a Right Leaning Bias?
I contend that it is a little of both, and SHAME on the Media for having any Bias. Shouldn't journalists be IMPARTIAL on their reporting? Would we accept Scientific Papers that only discussed the evidence that supported their Theories and Hypothesis? Should we not demand that reporting agencies give us the FACTS and not their interpretation of the facts?

Take for instance the whole Tea Party or the 912 event...
Some media outlets reported "tens of thousands" while others reported "2-3 million". If you look at all the pictures and the estimates, and compare that with other events (promise keepers, million mom march, the president's inauguration, etc) you can easily get the feeling that the number was prolly closer to 500,000. That is NOT a statistically insignificant number. Also, there were several groups, not just one mass protesting, but lots of individual groups protesting. Ron Paul's Group, the John Birch Society, and several anti-Tax groups, protesting everything from Taxes to Spending to Healthcare to the Federal Reserve... any ONE group might have had 10s of 1000s, but all together, it was more like 100s of 1000s...

If you think that the "numbers of protesters" is the NEWS here, well, you would be wrong. The "numbers of protesters" reporting only shows the Bias of the Left and Right in the media to "dumb down" or to "inflate" the numbers, respectively.
No, the big news here is, the numbers of protesters vs. what the numbers are protesting.
Currently the argument is over the numbers, but people aren't looking at WHY we are discussing the numbers at all. If we take my estimate of around 500,000 people, that is a representative number. It is a number representing a larger group of Americans, a group that is opposed to Taxes, Government sponsored healthcare, and the Federal Reserve. If you look into it, you will see that all these groups have legitimate concerns.
But taking our attention away from the MEANING of these numbers is what the argument ABOUT the numbers is for. It prevents us from looking into the facts.

Why would the media want to distract us? One reason might be if people realize that there are organizations and "hundreds of thousands" of people that oppose the Government's current direction, they may join the fight. So if the media distracts us, and hides the fact of WHY people are protesting and HOW MANY...if you feel alone, you are less likely to stand up and say something. This bias will get us all lost in the fog.

These and other stories indicate a "left leaning" media bias, over-all.

This isn't the only "proof" of a left-leaning bias in the news...
Look at the Tax Fraud scandal that plagued the Obama administration in the first few months of his taking office... What ever happened to these people? Why haven't we heard of their punishments and prosecutions (because the laws of our land WERE violated)? We hear about the tax problems, and then we don't hear anything, ever again.
And what about Acorn? Scooped by a couple "kids"? If this was the Bush administration, this would be FRONT PAGE news, "Bush administration funding prostitution", "Bush administration tax sheltering child prostitution"... yet we didn't hear a word about it until 2 kids blew the lid off the topic, and then only one or two major news agencies carried the story, and the story didn't center on Acorn, but on these kid reporters ...even now some news outlets are saying "they were just playing along" -- Uh-huh, ok...tell me another one.
How about the current trend to label everyone who disagrees with Obama and his Policies as a "Racist"?
Isn't this an ad-hominem attack, or a straw man? Instead of dealing with the issues, you call someone a racist, and that ends the argument...
Check this out...I am as Racist against Obama as I was against Bush. The race I am biased against is "politician"...

So, many would say Fox News is "Right Leaning", I would say that Fox News is "no so Left Leaning" many of the others are "Left Leaning" and you have to look really hard to find any credible source for "TRUTH" in the news...

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/archive.aspx
http://newsbusters.org/
http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/must-read-the-definitive-catalog-of-left-wing-media-bias/
http://www.examiner.com/x-16500-Lake-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Two-million-man-march-in-Washington
http://www.examiner.com/x-20909-Columbia-Independent-Examiner~y2009m9d13-As-many-as-2-million-protestors-attend-912-Washington-DC-Tea-Party-Rally
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/09/-dc-tea-party-crowd-estimate-how-did-thousands-become-millions.html
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/acorn_media_beck_fox/2009/09/16/261056.html