Arts: Film & TV Studies: Broadcast Media What Media Bias? The Awful Truth for Both Parties

Many books in the past decade have been published about the ethereal notion known as media bias. While the majority of the books have been about the so-called "liberal bias" that the media has, such as Bernard Goldberg's aptly name Bias and Ann Coulter's hate-filled rant Slander, there have also been a few about a supposed conservative bias, such as Eric Alterman's recent What Liberal Media?. The truth, that neither end of the political spectrum …

…can listen to the rabidly anti-government Grover Norquist on NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS. There is no bias, overall. If you want to pretend there is one, you can easily isolate the opposing points of view and focus on the message you want to exaggerate. No matter how either side may put it, there is no definitive media bias, and that's the truth. But as FOX News puts it, I report - You decide.