Directory of Culture and Media Criticism Introductions and FAQs from Free-Market. Australia A speech to a group of artists, calling them to become famous by refusing subsidies out of taxpayer money. What politics destroys, it first subsidizes. The Justice Policy Institute finds that media coverage of crime understates the proportion of minorities who are victims, overstates youth participation in crime, and exaggerates the rate of crime.
Journalists have to admit that their bias leads to slanted reporting.
It is also time for people to stop demanding the mythical unbiased reporting that has never existed. An objective reporter is not one that takes no stand in covering a story, but one who in search of the truth reports what the truth really is. United States Professor John Lott takes the newspaper of record to task for cooking the books on rampage shootings. The Times' editors respond. Mention firearms, the Second Amendment or, heaven forbid, the NRA, and flecks of rabid foam seem to seep from the newsprint.