MSM Bias Shows Through Like A Beacon in The Darkness

ABC seems to be the worst offender lately on the bias meter, particularly according to NewsBusters and their exposure of a particular blogger of late that posted a disturbingly strange BDS rant we blogged about here a few days ago.

ABC Article on Media Watchdogs Mentions NB, MM: Guess Which It Fails to Interview

Guess Which It Fails to Interview? | NewsBusters.org: "File this one under the rubric 'Unintentionally Revealing Moments of MSM Bias.' ABC publishes an article about media watchdog groups and singles out two for mention: NewsBusters and Media Matters. But the article goes on to cite the work of and publish comments by a representative of only one of those groups. Which one do you think it was?

Yesterday, ABC posted an article by its Samantha Wenders entitled The Camera Is Always Watching: The Internet Has Helped Citizens Play 'Gotcha' With the Press; Is That a Good Thing?' Wrote Wenders: 'Media watchdog groups like the conservative Newsbusters and the liberal Media Matters regularly post examples of what they see as bias in the media.'"

Cut to a comment by Karl Frisch, director of media relations at Media Matters: "Our goal at Media Matters is to hold the media accountable, and the best tools at our disposal are showing what's actually happening in the media."

There followed three long paragraphs focusing on the Media Matters posting of Don Imus' infamous comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. "New Yorker" media maven Ken Auletta is also given an opportunity to weigh in on the controversy.

Here at NewsBusters, we don't like to be lumped together with Media Matters, but it's perhaps understandable that others might see us at two sides of a coin. And if Wenders wanted to quote Media Matters first, well, OK, maybe she was going in alphabetical order.

So I kept reading, awaiting the focus on NewsBusters' work and the comments from one of our senior editors. And awaitin', and awaitin' . . . continued

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