Media bias is a topic we often discuss at Bold, and it’s a passion area for me. In 2005, my brother Matt founded NewsBusters, a media criticism blog calling out liberal bias that I helped him co-edit (and several years prior he also launched the successful blog RatherBiased.com calling out former CBS anchor Dan Rather’s liberal bias), so I’ve been following the anti-conservative media data for years. Whether it’s in political donations, self-identified ideology or partisan affiliation, the mainstream, elite political press –supposedly “impartial” — overwhelmingly tilts left. This is a trend that’s been in place at least since America’s 1960s “Culture War” began. More recently, the overwhelming negative bias against President Trump was recently highlighted in a study by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (which generously awarded me a full-tuition journalism scholarship to complete a public policy master’s degree there in 2010). As a former reporter for POLITICO, The Hill and The Washington Times, I saw this bias firsthand as well. I spoke about this bias this morning on Fox News Channel on the Fox & Friends program. .@carriesheffield: The mainstream media is neglecting their duty to represent the public. They’ve failed…
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