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NPR Listeners May Finally Be Protected from Opera Bias

Public radio listeners! Have you long worried that your station was undermining capitalism through its broadcasts of the Ring Cycle?

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Dead Tree Alert: The Third Bias

  My column in this week’s print TIME expands on a bullet point from my post a week ago, on the Pew Research poll that asked TV viewers whether they believed the networks they watched had a liberal or conservative bias. The problem with this dichotomy, used not just by Pew but media critics all [...]

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Who Says TV News Is Biased? TV News Viewers Do!

The Pew Research Center has issued a study about the public perception of TV news which finds shockingly—shockingly!—that TV audiences see Fox News as the most ideological network. But beyond that, the study is a trove of curious data points showing that people find ideology in a lot of places—and they don’t necessarily mind it. [...]