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...left and the right, groups with such names as Morality in Media and Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME). There are also aquatic watchdog publications such as Greenpeace Pundit Watch and watchdog books such as Unreliable [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media. One outfit even publishes an annual guide that rates journalists on a four-star basis, as if they were restaurants or portable vacuum cleaners. It is anybody's guess how much influence these groups have, but they're certainly a noisy bunch.}]The granddaddy is Accuracy...
...Media Research Center, an Alexandria, Va., organization founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III, former president of the National Conservative Political Action Committee. In addition to a monthly newsletter, MediaWatch, and the reference book And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias, the center also publishes TV, etc., a guide to left-wing influences in the entertainment business. Topics range from the plight of devout Christian actors forced to go undercover in atheistic Hollywood to the "radical environmentalist agenda" propagated by Ted Turner's cartoon program Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
...bimonthly magazine, Extra!, draws attention to controversial stories that have been killed by TV stations, newspapers and magazines. It is probably best known for its merciless scrutiny of the guest lists of programs such as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and Ted Koppel's Nightline for evidence of cultural or political bias. One study determined that 90% of the U.S. guests on MacNeil/Lehrer were white and 87% were male, while the corresponding numbers for Koppel's show were 89% white and 82% male. Chris Ramsey, director of program marketing for MacNeil/Lehrer, defends the program by noting that it cross-examines the people...
...most glaring example of this bias involves a foiled attempt to revise the USDA's dietary guidelines. In 1958 the department introduced its "basic four" food-group chart, which divided food into four major categories: milk, meat, vegetables and fruits, and bread and cereals. The groups were quickly branded into the brain of every American schoolchild as of equal importance...
Critics of ethnic bias can point to such celebrated examples as the use of the word regatta on a College Board exam of a few years past -- a term that had little to do with experience in the inner city. Educational Testing Service, which administers the College Boards, now reviews each exam question for such assumptions. However, the desire to meet minority concerns has also led to such skewing practices as "race norming," the comparison of test scores only within minority groups rather than across the board. That can lead to a subtle undermining of minority achievement. It is, indeed...