An interesting column from Megan McArdle today in which she argues that media bias is doing serious damage to the Democratic Party. The gist here is that by going all in for team blue the media has squandered its own credibility to the point that they almost don’t matter any more. The piece opens with McArdle stating the obvious: The media is heavily biased toward the left.
I still agree with conservatives that the mainstream media is biased toward the left. It could hardly be otherwise, given the political leanings of journalists: A 2022 survey showed that fewer than 4 percent identified as Republicans. In the worst cases, this leads to reporting that treats “Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need.” More commonly, it subtly affects what stories journalists choose to cover, what angle they take, whose experts they give more…
