Is not! Is too!…
According to my published blogging schedule, I’m not supposed to write anything before 1:00 p.m. on MWFs (and most of the time I won’t this semester). But I found this quote in the Washington Post an interesting way to kick off the new year a little early:
“My conclusion is that the press is biased — biased in favor of conflict,” [Ari] Fleischer said. “There is an ideological element — a subtle bias on policy issues, particularly on social policy issues, that favors Democrats more than Republicans. But that bias is secondary. Conflict comes first, regardless of whether the press is covering a Democrat or a Republican.”
Any quibbles I have with this statement are minor compared to the truth it speaks about the structural biases of journalism, especially the narrative and bad news biases.
