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It is my personal opinion that there is a bias in the media . . . against Fred Thompson's candidacy for President.

I dislike the formulation, "the media" to describe Big Journalism because

although movies and TV shows are in fact liberal, they are fictional - and cannot be made "unbiased" without censorship, which would be a bias all its own.

"media" is a plural noun - and Big Journalism is a single entity, albeit one with many faces. At root, Big Journalism is the Associated Press, a monopoly on the delivery of news over the telegraph wire. To defend itself against the charge that it is a monopoly of propaganda power, the AP started claiming to be objective over 150 years ago. And all the faces of Big Journalism - The New York Times, ABC News, Time, etc - are united in claiming that journalism - including that of their nominal competitors - is objective.
The claim of lack of bias is an unprovable negative, even if it were true. And although it may not be possible to prove that a report is biased at the time it is reported, it is possible to analyze reporting in a historical context and clearly see that it is heavily biased. The bias of journalism is that the things that the AP knows that you don't - the latest news - is important. Occasionally it is, but that is usually not the case.
Bias in favor of the novel is bias against the status quo, against conservatism. Fred Thompson is the most clearly conservative potentially successful contender for nomination to the presidency in the Republican Party, and of course there is no conservative contender for the nomination of the Democratic Party. Consequently, bias against Thompson is strictly a dog-bites-man story.
Huckabee and McCain are conservative in their own way - but then, Al Gore is "conservative" from the POV of wanting to prevent change to the CO₂ concentration of the atmosphere. The American "status quo" against which "liberals" rant is one in which freedom and equality of opportunity (albeit imperfect) reward incentive, diligence and perseverance - and it very unconservatively promotes progress and therefore promotes change. The alternative to American "conservatism" of that sort is American "liberalism" - which pays lip service to liberty but attacks the very notion of the possibility of virtue apart from that which lies in mere criticism of the successful.
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