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...dealing with specific allegations of media bias is exceptionally difficult. Hidden bias, after all, is by definition unapparent. When someone describes a news story as biased??in interpretation, selection, wording—it often means that it conflicts with what the speaker believes to be an accurate presentation. During the Lewinsky scandal, conservatives were sure that the protection of the liberal media had kept President Bill Clinton in office, just as Clinton’s defenders spoke of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that was keeping the scandal alive. Without a method...
...these sources were all that many of the students knew of hundreds of years of Chinese history—they were certainly all I knew—what was the use of calling them “biased??? So officials may have preferred a powerful bureaucracy; did that disprove their contention that the war was the Emperor’s fault? Without additional sources to compare these to, without the ability to use them constructively in forming historical judgment, the charge of bias was no more than what Isaiah Berlin termed a memento mori, an expression of human...