I learned of the slight left bias in a class I attended on inherent bias in linguistic analysis,
What year did you take this class?
Personally, I've seen the "liberal bias" disappear and be replaced by a "conservative bias" during the past twenty years. I've a hunch you took that class at a time when liberal bias in the media was gasping out its dying breath, and conservatism was moving in to take over.
ariedana makes an excellent point about corporate control of the media, nowadays. She doesn't really make clear how pervasive it is, though. Incidentally, corporate control of the media ultimately resulting in a conservative bias, along with almost every other major influence on conditions in America as they now exist, was predicted in 1984 in Herbert I. Schiller's Information and the Crisis Economy. The only influence on contemporary conditions and affairs that Schiller didn't outright predict was 9-11, and he even hinted at the possibility of something like that occurring.
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Date: 2004-10-11 04:42 pm (UTC)What year did you take this class?
Personally, I've seen the "liberal bias" disappear and be replaced by a "conservative bias" during the past twenty years. I've a hunch you took that class at a time when liberal bias in the media was gasping out its dying breath, and conservatism was moving in to take over.