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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: "Bias" Isn't Supported—Because It's Not True By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart Proving that irony is alive and well post-Sept. 11, a book deriding the national press corps for its flagrant liberal bias has been the subject of enormous attention in the same mainstream media that, the book argues, suppress conservative views. Bias, by former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg, is long on name-calling and vitriol, but short on substance. "Delusional," "hypocrites," "Lilliputians"-- these are just a few of the words Goldberg uses to describe journalists in general, and his old CBS colleagues in particular. He quips that if CBS News were a prison, many of its employees would be Dan Rather's "bitches." It's ironic that Goldberg's book has come out during a time when right-wing media watchdogs-- who can find a socialist tilt in the weather report-- are offering virtually nothing but praise for mainstream journalists' coverage since Sept. 11. Goldberg marshals little documentation for his claim that the news is packed with the views of liberal advocacy groups and rarely includes conservative opinions. In reality, year after year, right-leaning think tanks are cited in far more broadcast and print reports than either centrist or left-leaning think tanks. A survey by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting of Nightline's guest list found that for every representative of a labor union invited to debate economic issues, there were seven representatives of corporations. If, as Goldberg argues, there's a media tilt toward Democrats, then why have Republicans received a majority of newspaper endorsements in all but two presidential elections since 1932? To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2841 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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