Biased Media?

Recently I mentioned to some friends that I listen to NPR. Most of them remarked by saying that this was part of the “liberal media.” However, I also have one friend tell me she believes NPR is actually leaning conservative. Go figure. How does this happen? I think that the media, in general is biased. There is going to be a tilt one way or the other. Granted some are tilted more than others. There was a time when I actually thought Fox News was Fair and Balanced. Perhaps they were and have since changed. Or perhaps I have changed. Actually, I know I have, but what I’m saying is that since we have our own thoughts and agendas, we can’t declare someone neutral. It’s not possible. It’s all relative to us.

So relative to me, I submit the following. My wife has taken to watching the nightly news. Specifically, she is watching CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric. That’s fine with me since Gibson (ABC) sounds condescending and Williams (NBC) sounds whiny and sensationalistic. Couric seems to be the most tolerable of the three. So, never mind left or right here. Let’s just mention Dick Cheney. They mentioned him last night as it related to this CIA story. Before the story ran, of course Couric introduced the story in which these two pictures were shown behind her. Now tell me this was the best they could do for the story. Really? Look, I have no affinity for the former VP, but I doubt anyone could look at these objectively and think the network was trying to paint Cheney in a neutral way. I won’t go as far as to say they lean to the left, (even if I believe they do), but I will say they are clearly not big Cheney fans. I’m just saying there is no unbiased media.