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by at-fates-hands 4279 days ago
>>>> organizations providing quality journalism

If you're a liberal, I'm sure its pretty fantastic. As someone who considers themselves an independent, this newspaper is unabashedly liberal.

Perhaps this is having an effect on its subscribers?

Why are subscribers (and advertisers) of The New York Times fleeing to other newspapers (such as the Wall Street Journal, whose circulation numbers have remained steady), or to other avenues such as Fox News, for their news and information?

There is only one answer: The New York Times has a proclivity towards left-wing bias and unbalanced reporting of the news.

Even a cursory glance of the paper reveals its pervasive editorializing, which comes through loud and clear everywhere from page one to the obituaries. But just as damaging to it than its left-wing slant has been its complete lack of interest in any stories having the remotest possibility of tarnishing the hallowed image of President Barack Obama, an image which it and other members of the so-called "main-stream media" has had such an active role in creating.

source (2009): http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/10/21/liberal-bias-is-killi...

2 comments

A 5 year old source consisting of some random blogger with the identical unsubstantiated "liberal media!!!1" canard used by Fox and the like is probably not the best source to use when trying to make a factual argument about media bias.
What does that even mean, "independent"? Independent of what? You just don't care about politics?
Yeah, this person, like many, makes the mistake of confusing liberal-vs-conservative for democrat-vs-republican.