Liberal bias in American media?

Question

What do you believe are the root causes?

Answer 1

I'm not sure I buy the assumption. There are far fewer chances for bias in the media than you think. Most stories are pretty straight forward, and there is pretty clear consensus about what's important and what's not.

If a majority of reporters lean a little to the left, it's probably because of self-interest. Liberals tend to want change a bit more than conversatives, who are happy leaving well enough alone. (We're talking very general terms here.) There is more news in change than the status quo.

I think reporters also are on the idealistic side, and get into the business hoping to change a small bit of the world. That feeds into the paragraph above. (Of course, when it doesn't work, some become a little bitter.)

Answer 2

It is a figment of Sean Hannity's imagination.