Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist rhetoric. Those contributions to democracy may be diminished by Congress’ cuts.
Because conservatives don’t care about fair reporting. They want their reporting.
There’s a saying: facts have a liberal bias.
If you really want to get into the history, there is a Behind the Bastards episode where they talking about how during the Nixon scandal, conservatives saw that once the public was made aware of the link between Nixon and the thieves, the country turned on them.
They noticed that the facts were assumed to be true. That’s why they started attacking power journalists like Walter Cronkite because their names were associated with facts.
After Nixon, conservatives attacked the Fairness Doctrine rule. And Fox News was born.
I believe the original quote was “Reality has a liberal bias.” It’s attributed to Stephen Colbert, but I believe he was quoting someone else, because I remember using the quote in a term paper in high school back in the 90s.
Because conservatives don’t care about fair reporting. They want their reporting.
There’s a saying: facts have a liberal bias.
If you really want to get into the history, there is a Behind the Bastards episode where they talking about how during the Nixon scandal, conservatives saw that once the public was made aware of the link between Nixon and the thieves, the country turned on them.
They noticed that the facts were assumed to be true. That’s why they started attacking power journalists like Walter Cronkite because their names were associated with facts.
After Nixon, conservatives attacked the Fairness Doctrine rule. And Fox News was born.
Truth has a liberal bias too.
I believe the original quote was “Reality has a liberal bias.” It’s attributed to Stephen Colbert, but I believe he was quoting someone else, because I remember using the quote in a term paper in high school back in the 90s.