Not much effort was made to debunk this sample as unrepresentative, since to anyone with any close acquaintance with the Washington press corps, it rings true. Nor can it be doubted that the mono-partisanship of the press makes a difference. For media bias seldom manifests itself as crude propagandizing. Far more often, it is a matter of reporters and producers looking for a story where they expect to find it and not looking where they don't. Consider our two most recent vice presidents.
Media bias is especially strong on cultural issues.
Clinton staffers and backers argue loudly that the press has been harshly and unfairly critical of Clinton. But a review of the record shows the press tends to cut Clinton slack it never cut George Bush or Ronald Reagan. Take Clinton's October 1995 statement in Houston that he had raised taxes too much in 1993. It just doesn't seem to occur to a mono-partisan press that there could be stories here. As for media scandal-mongering, start with the original Whitewater story.