Talk:Media bias in the United States

These US-specific examples did not have a natural place in the Media bias article, so I'm posting them here in case someone wants to include them in this article. They are somewhat old studies and may not be very useful.

Studies and debates

This section contains an excessive amount of intricate detail. (March 2021)

TV

A 2007 joint study by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that people see media bias in television news media such as CNN.^[1] Although both CNN and Fox were perceived in the study as not being centrist, CNN was perceived as being more liberal than Fox. Moreover, the study's findings concerning CNN's perceived bias are echoed in other studies.^[2]

Newspapers

Riccardo Puglisi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at the editorial choices of the New York Times from 1946 to 1997, finding that issues salient to the out-of-power party received more coverage, with slightly more coverage of democratic issues during Republican presidencies than vice versa.^[3]

Steve Ansolabehere, Rebecca Lessem and Jim Snyder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006) analyzed the political orientation of endorsements by U.S. newspapers resulting in a slight democratic advantage in the 1990s.^[4]

A 2004 study by the conservative American Enterprise Institute study found less positive tones of headlines when an incumbent president was Republican.^[5]

A 1998 survey by the progressive nonprofit Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting concluded that a majority of Washington-based reporters were relatively liberal on social policies and were significantly to the right of the public on economic, labor, health care and foreign policy issues.^{[6][needs update]} Superb Owl (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

References

1. [1]

   "The Invisible Primary – Invisible No Longer: A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign" (PDF). Project for Excellence in Journalism. Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University. 29 October 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
2. [2]

   Weatherly, Jeffrey N.; Petros, Thomas V.; Christopherson, Kimberly M.; Haugen, Erin N. (2007). "Perceptions of Political Bias in the Headlines of Two Major News Organizations". Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. 12 (2): 91–104. doi:10.1177/1081180X07299804. S2CID 146360070. At p. 97
3. [3]

   Puglisi, Riccardo (2004). "Being the New York Times: The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper". SSRN. doi:10.2139/ssrn.573801. S2CID 56360467. SSRN 573801. Later published as: Puglisi, Riccardo (2011). "Being the New York Times: The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper" (PDF). The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 11 (1). doi:10.2202/1935-1682.2025.
4. [4]

   Ansolabehere, Stephen; Lessem, Rebecca; Snyder, James M. (2006). "The Orientation of Newspaper Endorsements in U.S. Elections, 1940–2002". Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 1 (4): 393–404. doi:10.1561/100.00000009. S2CID 153801845.
5. [5]

   Lott, John R.; Hassett, Kevin A. (2004). "Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased?". SSRN. doi:10.2139/ssrn.588453. S2CID 219396151. SSRN 588453. Later published as: Lott, John R.; Hassett, Kevin A. (2014). "Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased?". Public Choice. 160 (1–2): 65–108. doi:10.1007/s11127-014-0171-5. S2CID 154123163. SSRN 2319001.
6. [6]

   Croteau, David (1998-06-01). "Examining the 'Liberal Media' Claim: Journalists' Views on Politics, Economic Policy and Media Coverage". Extra!. FAIR.

User Rhododendrites falsely removed a study from The Quarterly Journal of Economics from a recent edit and gave an explanation that constitutes Original Research. Could somebody re-add this? This is the link:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/Media.Bias.pdf

2A02:810A:129C:1200:FD4F:BCE5:1F8E:B69D (talk) 23:22, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Why would we have the study in the lead? And in any case, it is about 20 years out of date. Published in 2005 it was possibly written in 2004. I think it is useless because of that. Doug Weller talk 11:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Did Trump really lie and promote conspiracy theories? Nononsense101 (talk) 17:43, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, please see the many sources and examples at False or misleading statements by Donald Trump. For this article, I've replaced the broken link with working citations, , . _signed, Rosguill ^talk 17:56, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

...(my reaction to seeing over 700 sources of varying reliability, most of which oppose me). Oh well. It seems the sources are against me. While I'm still undecided on how many of Trump's statements were true or false(and I support Trump for different reasons e.g. economy, peace plans; haven't really heard of allegations of lying in such a capacity before) and think that at least some of it could be churnalism and defamation, I also accept that the general consensus is against me and I, being a conservative, in a conservative family, and using mostly conservative sources, am likely biased and have bad or incomplete information on this. It's actually kind of refreshing to have my biases checked and put in its place. BTW Dimadick (talk · contribs), please don't say In what planet have you been living? or anything similar. I honestly haven't heard of this in such a capacity, and such a comment can be seen as uncivil. I'm not really affected by it, but just to let you know. Also, what is a whopper? Nononsense101 (talk) 19:58, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

See the Cambridge dictionary definition: a whopper is a "big lie". Dimadick (talk) 14:50, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

In what planet have you been living? That sentence covers most of his life and words for the last decade or so. Nearly every time that Donald opens his mouth, the news covers another whopper. Dimadick (talk) 18:26, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Uses data from [https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism#why-do-some-terrorist-attacks-receive-more-media-attention-than-others].

Source seems good, but are we using the best data and is it recent enough.I’m not sure. Doug Weller talk 16:40, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

who ever wrote the article saying CNN is on the side of the conservatives is 'once again' spreading fake news. They are so far left Republicans avoid even watching or listening to even their opinion, let alone anything they push as news. Nikkiraw1963 (talk) 06:04, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Where in the article does it say CNN is conservative? I searched the article for CNN, found ten mentions, and could not find one saying CNN was conservative.Rick Norwood (talk) 14:24, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

User talk:Gianturco gusano Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 18:43, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

I misinterpreted the rule. Gianturco gusano (talk) 17:34, 4 December 2025 (UTC)