Posts Tagged ‘media bias’

A free press is not some huge floodlight, illuminating everything so that a well-informed populace can make fully-informed decisions. Rather it is a series of spotlights, each wielded by a journalist or editor, each of whom has a point to make, each of whom wants you to draw certain conclusions. You can learn a lot about a journalist’s world-view by what they cover as well as how. (And by what they choose not to cover.)