"In a 2009 poll, 60% of respondents charged news organizations with bias, up from 45% in 1985," wrote Brooke Gladstone, author of The Influencing Machine. "In both years, they saw a mostly liberal bias. And in fact, reporters are more likely than the general public to identify themselves as liberal" (Gladstone, 2011, 60).
"Journalists will bend over backward to appear balanced by offering equal time to opposing viewpoints, even when they aren't equal. Often they bend to the right, to evade the charge of liberal bias" (Gladstone, 2011, 69).
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