Yes, the mainstream media is biased

The fact that the mainstream media is heavily tilted to the left is well known. Of course it's being denied by those speaking on behalf of the media, but researches confirm the obvious.

Democrats are not only favored in the tone of the coverage. They get more coverage period. This is particularly evident on morning news shows, which "produced almost twice as many stories (51% to 27%) focused on Democratic candidates than on Republicans."

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Interesting data, isn't it? And it isn't any better here in Canada. Examples are plenty. Just check out the blog of the Conservative EDA for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe. They were following the media for a few weeks during the summer and they found at six occasions in which the media was biased towards the Conservative party.

Clearly they are trying to convey that Prime Minister Harper, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay and the whole Conservative government could not care less about human rights. In fact the subject is “not on the radar of senior Tories, MacKay says.” There is little in the rest of the story to erase that initial impression created in the opening lines of the article.

In fact, the story was so imflammatory and biased that days later the Globe and Mail had to issue a retraction of their scintillating headline.

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When it comes to the right to life, the situation is worse. John-Henry Westen gave us some of the statistics during the Conference. While 64% of Canadians believe there must be legal protection for the unborn at least at some stage during pregnancy, over 90% of the journalists fiercely support unrestricted abortions on demand. No wonder the pro-life movement is almost always portrayed as a small minority that tries to turn back the clock, while abortion is presented as a cornerstone of women's rights.

With the mainstream media being one-sided, people must turn to the blogs in search of the alternative points of view.

Looking at the examples from Canada, especially Progressive Bloggers and Liblogs, one can tell quickly — i.e., by looking at a handful of blogs in each group — that they do not provide any new or different angles on the stories of the day. Quite the contrary is true: they merely rehash and quote from the stories in the mainstream media — or worse, from the press releases of political parties — thus offering their readers the same drivel that is also found in newspapers (including the left-wing/politically correct bias).

Global warming and the Kyoto Protocol are two examples of the media telling the public that these are issues they must care about and/or support, and the bloggers on the left keep repeating the same message. To obtain a more realistic and truthful analysis of these topics one has no choice but to turn to non-leftist blogs.

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Just 10-15 years ago the mainstream media was pretty much unopposed. Now the blogs give us a unique opportunity to challenge the leftist media monopoly. So we better use it while the opportunity is still there.