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Political bias in media doesn't threaten democracy — other, less visible biases do

  • Written by Marjorie Hershey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
Political bias in media doesn't threaten democracy — other, less visible biases doPeople see bias in the stories that favor the other party, but they tend not to see bias in stories favoring their own party. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Charges of media bias – that “the media” are trying to brainwash Americans by feeding the public only one side of every issue – have become as common as...

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