Example of Left Bias In Coverage of Gun Crime
Via Instapundit, a link to a post about how the press is covering a shooting in Philadelphia. The author notes that many of the news sources mention the shooter was a felon much further in their articles than that the homicides were committed over a bet.
The idea here is that the reporters, intentionally or not, are highlighting the senseless nature of the homicide before indicating that the senseless act was caused by someone that was already forbidden to possess the gun needed to commit the act.
I find this kind of argumentation compelling. Left leaning bias is not explicit. Professional journalists are good enough to realize a set of indisputable facts must be reported. In fact most news sources do a good job of this (excluding the war), including Fox News. The bias becomes more apparent as the reporting requires more and more editorial input. For example, how does one arrange the facts in a story? In this case, most news sources put the disputed fact of what started this fight closer to the front then the fact that the perpetrator was a felon.
Like all news sources Fox News makes these kinds of editorial decisions. Unlike other news sources, Fox news is excoriated for its biased editorial decisions. Some on the left don’t realize that there is editorial slack on how a story is reported. They are accustomed to the typical left narrative and assume any deviation from that narrative is untrue. This is quite common from left leaning naïve readers that have never bothered to think about the editorial decision of reporting a story because they implicitly agree with the way the story is covered. Readers leaning right are much more aware since they have been frustrated for years with the dearth of editorial news coverage in accordance with their bias.
Hence the countless liberals I have ran into shocked to discover MSM has a bias.