Outstanding: Washington Post Declares That The Public Which Believes The Media is Biased Only Thinks That Because They Themselves Are Biased UPDATE

Perfect!

We're not biased -- You are!

Here's the headline:

Public has its own biases about media

Chiefly, that the media is biased.

The guy's argument seems to be that the media, as a whole, has some conservative elements (Fox News, etc.) which "balance" the rest of it so that, as a whole, it's not liberally biased.

There are several problems with this. First of all, FoxNews and Rush Limbaugh cannot possibly balance ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The NYT, the LAT, the Washington Post, and all of the big newspaper conglomerates.

Further, even if it were the case that a few conservative elements of the media balanced, as a whole, the liberal parts of the media, the liberal parts of the media would themselves still be liberal.

Let's say that FoxNews can balance one major news organization's leftwing tilt -- say, CBS'. Okay, fine. CBS tilts left and Fox tilts right and they cancel each other out.

But CBS is still liberal, isn't it?

The guy simply seems bad at, what's the word, thinking.

UPDATE[DiT]: He's also bad at crawfishing. Today the headline reads "How Biased Are the Media Really?"

posted by Ace at 06:23 PM

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