“Media bias” jumps the shark.
With this, it’s official: the act of complaining about media bias has officially jumped the shark.
A decade ago, Rush Limbaugh helped point out the most egregious examples of liberal media bias. Ten years, the Internet, and Fox News later, our vastly expanded options for information mean we don’t have as much of a reason to complain as we used to.
There’s a difference between documenting specific examples of national media bias, like the good folks at Media Research Center do, and constantly blaming the media for reporting our mistakes, like too many Missouri Republicans do.
Hopefully, the next six weeks (and the next two years) will see groups like the Dunklin County Democratic Women complain about the vast right-wing media conspiracy over their games of canasta, and see Republican leaders stop whining about the “liberal spin” and start using other outlets — namely, the Internet — to deliver their message directly to opinion leaders and voters.
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