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    Conservative and Liberal Media Bias

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    In five pages this paper examines the events of September 11, 2001 in a consideration of left and right media reporting biases. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    news directly, rather than offer commentaries on it. In other words, they are supposed to be objective observers, leaving us to draw our own conclusions from their stories, rather than  rampant editorialists. The truth is, however, somewhere in between. For the most part, news organizations dont claim liberal or conservative bias in their reporting. Yet, for all of the claims  and counterclaims, the bias is there. But how strong are both liberal and conservative bias in the media? And how has this  impacted reporting on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon? This paper will attempt to answer these two questions and shed some  insight on bias involved with media reporting. The first area to consider is the extend of media bias. Depend on it, conservatives  are convinced that the media is "anti-right wing," while liberals are convinced that the media supports conservatives all the way. For the most part, however, the conservatives tend to be  correct - except for radio talk show hosts (such as Rush Limbaugh), who throw their anti-liberal rhetoric over the airwaves, the media definitely slants in the direction of liberalism. Wrote  Woody West in his coverage of the 1992 Presidential Election between incumbent president and Republican George Bush and his challenger, Democratic Bill Clinton: "So pervasive was the spin and frequently  nasty coverage (with George Bush the overwhelming recipient) that there must be an explanation besides the obvious ideological tilt" (p. 40). Even worse, when the "liberal media" is confronted with  accusations of bias, the media flatly denies it (West, 1992). Bernard Goldberg, a reporter for CBS news, found this out when, disturbed by a colleagues pointing fun at Presidential candidate 

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