{"id":105,"date":"2004-08-04T00:21:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=105"},"modified":"2004-08-04T00:21:22","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T05:21:22","slug":"liberal-media-bias-griffins-and-a-one-eyed-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/04\/liberal-media-bias-griffins-and-a-one-eyed-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal media bias, griffins, and a one-eyed giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of these things is not like the others,<br \/>\nOne of these things just doesn&#8217;t belong&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor as long as I can remember, I have heard my conservative friends complain about liberal media bias. Well, until the likes of FOX News Channel showed up, at least. In spite of this, however, my liberal-leaning friends were always quick to point out the latest (usually liberal-funded) study that showed how this couldn&#8217;t be true. And when FNC came on the scene, they thanked their lucky stars that CNN and NPR still had the &#8220;courage&#8221; to report the &#8220;real story.&#8221; (More recently, these same folks have been decrying CNN&#8217;s slide towards the right, but that&#8217;s an entry for another time.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/016976.php\">Now this<\/a>, via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com: A lecturer at a DNC seminar for new Democratic campaign press secretaries warned them about &#8220;media that are no longer tilted in your direction.&#8221; <em>Wait a second<\/em>&#8230; isn&#8217;t this tantamount to admitting <em>there was in fact a liberal media bias?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nah, couldn&#8217;t be. Like griffins and Cyclops, &#8220;liberal media bias&#8221; is &#8211; and always has been &#8211; clearly a myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn&#8217;t belong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalismation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-1H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}