Charges of media bias focused on partisanship are usually attempts to spin an audience or keep an audience in ideological line. Both of these goals seem to be in play in the new media bias web portal published by the Trump administration. The reality of bias in the news media is far more complicated.
This administration is not interested in a properly complicated understanding of our ailing news media (mostly re: the coverage of politics and governance in the United States).
A long time ago I wrote a short guide to media bias. You’ll find it linked on the sidebar. Or just click here. If you’re committed to the idea that political bias in the news media is obvious in one direction or another, well, you’re not going to like what I have to say. Nothing that has occurred since I first wrote it twenty years ago that leads me to believe much has changed.
Motivated political actors are still making the same silly, simplistic claims.
What we are today is much farther along the road to fascism (authoritarianism having already arrived) — attacking and discrediting the news media being one in a long list of things that fascists must attack and discredit in order to complete the destruction of democracy.
