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[[Image:Stossel.jpg|thumbnail|150px|right|[[John Stossel]]]]
 
[[Image:Stossel.jpg|thumbnail|150px|right|[[John Stossel]]]]
'''Liberal bias''' is partisan support for [[liberal]] positions or policies. This bias pervades encyclopedias, periodicals and [[broadcast media]], and the Internet. It is expressed by reporters and other journalists in mainstream media and by teachers in [[public school]] and in many private schools.  It includes techniques such as [[placement bias]], [[photo bias]] and [[liberal style]].  There is a difference between being liberal, having a liberal perspective, and having a liberal bias. It doesn't really exist but we think it does because we're pathetic, self-centered, dellusioned and, most of all, paranoid.
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'''Liberal bias''' is partisan support for [[liberal]] positions or policies. This bias pervades encyclopedias, periodicals and [[broadcast media]], and the Internet. It is expressed by reporters and other journalists in mainstream media and by teachers in [[public school]] and in many private schools.  It includes techniques such as [[placement bias]], [[photo bias]] and [[liberal style]].  There is a difference between being liberal, having a liberal perspective, and having a liberal bias.
    
In the absence of clear rules to prevent the bias, it will often occur due to:
 
In the absence of clear rules to prevent the bias, it will often occur due to:
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*a reliance on obscenity to attract attention
 
*a reliance on obscenity to attract attention
 
*an attempt to be "consistent" by treating men and women alike
 
*an attempt to be "consistent" by treating men and women alike
*where images are used, an obsession with race (seems like a godwin point right here, shit!)
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*where images are used, an obsession with race
    
==The Media Confronts Liberal Bias==
 
==The Media Confronts Liberal Bias==
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