If you are not a journalist, you may not be aware that there are a number of right-wing organizations that are largely or entirely focused on revealing purported left-wing bias in the media. Groups like the Media Research Center regularly produce reports that do things like skim network news broadcasts to determine how frequently coverage is positive about Democrats or negative about Republicans.
If you’ve ever seen a Fox News segment about media bias that talks about how overly generous the media is being to President Biden, for example, the odds are that the research undergirding the segment came from one of those organizations.
Recent analysis from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, though, indicates that such criticisms get the problem precisely backward. Continue reading.