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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...
...entirely sure why, but I got an inkling during my sophomore year in Historical Studies A-13: “China.” I don’t remember what material was discussed in the section devoted to bias in history; perhaps the journals of a court eunuch, a low-level bureaucrat or a scholar frustrated by failure in the exams. In any case, it was quickly resolved that all the sources before us were biased, fundamentally so. I remember feeling surprise at how easily 20-year-old students—many of whom had never taken a college...
...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of bias was no more than what Isaiah Berlin termed a memento mori, an expression of human fallibility and error with no historical content. Or, to quote Berlin once more: “One cannot cast doubt on everything at once, for then nothing is more dubious than anything else, and there...
...talking about a time when there’s a lot of bias crimes against Muslims, against Pakistani-Americans,” said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia journalism professor and co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association. The organization recently issued a call for responsible journalism regarding the coverage of Arab-American and South Asian American communities...
...difference in approach is also a matter of numbers. "In the U.S., Jews are a major electoral force that can turn votes around," says LFI director David Mencer. "In the U.K., the Jewish population is just not that important politically." British Jews also perceive widespread anti-Israel media bias, which the British Israel Communications office (BICOM) was established last October to address...