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July 1, 2011

Media Bias 101: How the MSM actively works to influence the debate

I’ve been blogging since since the summer of 2003 (even though I celebrate my anniversary in October because early Oct. 2003 is when I started regularly blogging), and the primary reason I got started at this was due to outrage at what I saw was extreme liberal bias from so-called “mainstream media” news outlets – news outlets that were supposed to be reporting news stories from a neutral perspective, rather than an opinionated perspective. Having been a former liberal myself who was greatly influenced by what I watched on the evening news and read in the local papers, I had long been well-aware of how liberal bias permeated the mainstream media information newsways (broadcast/print/online) and how that translated into the formation of opinions in the minds of your average American. .....   [Read More]