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Article: Getting It All Backwards.(Eric Alterman decries media bias)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, apparently lives in an alternate universe from the one the rest of us occupy. According to Alterman. a contributor to the Nation magazine and MSNBC, there is no such thing as a "liberal" media. Or, if there is, it is "tiny and underfunded compared with its conservative counterpart," as he has subsequently written in the Nation.
In our role as pro-lifers, as long as reporters and editors are fair-minded and balanced in their coverage, it doesn't matter to us whether the "media" is predominately "liberal" or "conservative." However, Alterman's book is of interest to us because he uses ...