The Media Is Biased, But Not in the Way You Think
News outlets fixate on the negative
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5 min readJan 12, 2022
The critics are right. The mainstream media is biased. It is not a political bias, though, no liberal or conservative slant, but something even more insidious: a bad-news bias.
During my decades as a daily journalist, at The New York Times and NPR, I knew that reporting on happy people and…
