There's a missing angle to this survey, which is that I think virtually everyone is still under the impression that journalistic ethics exist which demand unbiased coverage, and that any potential source of bias should be disclosed. And everyone still lives under this strange illusion because no mainstream sources ever say otherwise. I'm sure ethics are still taught at journalism schools as if they still existed.
Just as a thought experiment, think how much would change about the role of media if even very tiny changes were made. Suppose MSNBC opened their coverage with, "Your leading source for progressive news!", or NYT changed it's masthead to, "The newspaper of liberalism". I suggest that much argumentation would be short-circuited and change in character dramatically.
Both believing (want) and don't believing (not want) imply consent to the same suggestion (journalism).
Approved journalist schools.
There's a missing angle to this survey, which is that I think virtually everyone is still under the impression that journalistic ethics exist which demand unbiased coverage, and that any potential source of bias should be disclosed. And everyone still lives under this strange illusion because no mainstream sources ever say otherwise. I'm sure ethics are still taught at journalism schools as if they still existed.
Just as a thought experiment, think how much would change about the role of media if even very tiny changes were made. Suppose MSNBC opened their coverage with, "Your leading source for progressive news!", or NYT changed it's masthead to, "The newspaper of liberalism". I suggest that much argumentation would be short-circuited and change in character dramatically.