10-21-2020, 12:42 PM
(10-21-2020, 12:22 PM)PhilHos Wrote: This is just false. There has always been a media bias in this country since its founding. Fox News didn't do anything but show what was already there.
Wrong. The media supported segregation until the civil rights movement. The media supported the War in Vietnam until it turned into a disaster. CNN supported the invasion of Iraq.
The right has always seen giving equal coverage to both sides as being "biased against the right". Rupert Murdoch played on that to market his right-wing propaganda machine.