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...would rethink their actions. Name Withheld by Request Detroit Who Owns the Truth? It is laughable and tragic that CBS's failure to authenticate documents affirming what we all already know about George W. Bush's questionable National Guard duty would be used by some as proof of liberal bias in the media [Sept. 27]. If the media were truly leftist, they would be clamoring for the indictment of Bush and John Kerry for launching an illegal war on Iraq and for crimes against humanity perpetrated against the Iraqis. CBS's Dan Rather may be an idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...News the conservatives and MSNBC the viewers who are transfixed by long acronyms. Fox News is winning the cable battle, and during the Republican National Convention it even beat the networks. At the same time, media intellectuals, pundits and ordinary Americans alike agree that Fox exhibits a fairly extreme bias towards the right. Eighty-nine percent of Americans trust museums for unbiased information. Thirty-six percent trust television news. These numbers don’t really add up. Americans in the twenty-first century seem to have developed a contradictory stance towards the media. On one hand, they demand their...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: What's Left (or Right) To Trust? | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

...have in their media is reflected by the number of media watchdog groups, each with its own left- or right-leaning agenda, that have sprung up in the last few years. There’s the Media Research Center, whose mission is to “prove that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values.” And then there’s Media Matters for America, whose opposing raison d’etre is “to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: What's Left (or Right) To Trust? | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

It’s important to keep bias and sensationalism separate. Media bias is as old as the printing press, and it’s not going away. Sensationalism, however, has only as much staying power as we media consumers give it. Recently, we’ve been a bit too generous. When media outlets differentiate themselves by bending the truth and overstating the facts, it’s tough to know what’s left to trust. It’s also tough to blame them for their excesses. The consumer confidence problem plaguing American media?...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: What's Left (or Right) To Trust? | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

...school’s current policy might not shield transgender individuals from bias, according to Professor of Law Janet Halley...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Military Recruits at HLS | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

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