One of the ways you can always sense media bias is the terminology that the media elite decides to adopt en masse. Colleges are being occupied by “pro-Palestinian protesters,” and you can’t (accurately) call them “anti-Israel,” not to mention “pro-Hamas.” Liberals paint other liberals as pro-everything good, and the conservatives are anti-everything good. Anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-government, anti-tax. All of this is messaging, like advertising slogans.
This tendency is especially transparent on the “culture war” issues. Killing a baby is “abortion care.” Seeking an amputation is “gender-affirming care.” Florida adopting a six-week abortion ban is portrayed as very “restrictive.” The media will use the word “protections” for whatever policies they support, like Democrats passing “protections for gender-affirming care.” They’ll call liberalized abortion…
