INTRODUCTION

Over the past few decades, and certainly since the Nixon era, prominent conservative spokesmen and Republican leaders (and their staunch foot-soldiers in the media) have invented the notion of a "liberal media" in the United States, as a means of deceiving the public and gaining political power. Quite a few excellent books have studied and chronicled this phenomenon, and among the most compelling are: David Brock's The Republican Noise Machine [simply referred to as "Brock" on this website] and Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media (simply referred to as "Alterman" on this website). Joe Conason and Gene Lyons' The Hunting of the President (simply referred to as "Conason" on this website), is another book that is of utmost importance to understand how the media in this country works. [NOTE: I highly recommend that you purchase and read these books].

Interestingly, as conservatives gained more power in the American media and political landscape, their cries of a "liberal media" seem to have gone up rather than down. Here, I show that claims that the American media is (overall) "liberal" are fiction. 

Now, before you send me a hundred emails with an article here and an article there supposedly showing "liberal bias", let me define what I mean when I say the media is not biased "liberal". I mean that:
(a) When you consider the overall behavior of the media, it does not tilt liberal; rather, it tilts conservative. 
(b) For every article you send me claiming a "liberal bias", there exists more than one article that shows not just conservative bias but just shoddy reporting that favors conservative positions. 
Thus, the point of this website is NOT to argue that one cannot find some liberal bias in reporting in some cases; it is to show that, by and large, there is far more conservative bias and pro-conservative disinformation in the media than liberal bias.

If I were to put it very kindly, I would argue that a major fraction of the media in the United States [and here I am excluding the overtly fraudulent conservative media outlets] is a "he-said she-said" media that devotes little effort to calling a spade a spade or to an independent evaluation of supposed "facts". With such a journalistically compromised mode of operation, when inept "he-said, she-said" reporting meets generous amounts of fiction and disinformation - more from Republican or Conservative leaders or media outlets, than from Democratic or Progressive leaders or media outlets - the result is a media that overall tilts conservative. It is no surprise then that vast swaths of the American electorate remain deeply misinformed about the most important things of consequence to their lives.