The study takes people that view themselves in 5 distinct categories. Very left, moderate left, middle, moderate right, and far right. It asks them what their view is of each news network. Those on on the far left had a untrustworthy view of Fox and like far right programming. The far right distrusted most news outlets to the far left. Those in the moderate categories and middle took exception with far right and far left media but most of the mainstream media was fine including regular old Fox news. If that’s not a measure of how the general public perception of bias I don’t know what is.
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Cali, you’re the only one here debating “the general public perception of bias.” Everybody else is talking about reporting. Not perception. This has been pointed out to you several times. I’m not sure why you keep ignoring it and changing the subject back to perception.
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The fact that you take so much exception with news media on the right probably means you really probably are in the far left category. You might not view yourself as far left but relative to the general US population you probably are. That’s probably why you and some of the other posters see this asymmetrical bias you like to claim. You see yourself as the middle but don’t realize that you’re actually on the far left compared to the general population.
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You’re making a basic assumption here that is incorrect. And that assumption is that conservatives and liberals distrust the media on the “other side” for the same reason.
Let’s call this a hypothetical, just for the purposes if disproving your arguments. (For the record, to me, this is not hypothetical. This is what’s actually happening.):
What if the reporting at the NYT and WAPO are basically in the center (unbiased)? What if the reporting on most mainstream media clusters around the center? And, in this hypothetical, reporting on Fox (and, of course, Drudge, Limbaugh, etc) are heavily biased to the right. And what if liberals distrust right-wing media because it’s actually heavily biased? And what if conservatives distrust mainstream media because that’s what fox has been telling them to do for decades (a process which con man don has intensified and accelerated)?
If all of that is true, then that pew study would look exactly like it does. And mainstream media are not biased and right-wing media are. And it should be clear to you that your (completely illogical to begin with) claim that this study sheds any light on actual reporting is invalid. And it should also show you that there’s another possibility as to why I distrust right-wing media. And that is because it is actually biased, and not because of my political views.
