The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing. One of my lines in a column–in which a number of people thought I was insulting them personally–was that if Bush said the Earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: 'Shape of Earth–Views Differ.' Then they'd quote some Democrats saying that it was round. .Paul Krugman
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The media have a direct relationship with the people, and they have a responsibility to the people. It is important for them to report things as they see them, and not as they would like them to be. There are those who believe that the media should always be unbiased. The problem with this idea is that if everything is biased, then nothing is biased. If all news stories are slanted toward one side or the other, then the ones that aren't will be considered biased.
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