NOTEBOOK: Are the media biased or is it you?

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All of us in the the media have heard the criticism. We are too liberal. We are too conservative. We are from another planet, whose occupants see things differently. But the New York Times reports that an experiment by the Knight Foundation and Gallup revealed that readers are more biased than the writers. The organizations revealed the sources of articles to half the participants, but not to the other half. “Very conservative” and “very liberal” readers were most likely to be biased, with nearly 43 percent of each of those groups having a “large ratings bias.” For comparison, only 31 percent of moderates had similar bias. Read the article: https://nyti.ms/2xSwfIv