The Disconnect (Part 1)

The Disconnect:

"On February 17, the Media Research Center's director of media analysis, Tim Graham, published a guest post on the CBS News Public Eye blog that answered 'a few questions we are often asked' about the MRC. But it raises a few more questions about the MRC's methods.

In his post, Graham makes a surprising admission:
But the great majority of what we watch and read is not noticeably unfair or inaccurate. If we were asked the recent CBS poll question, 'How often do the news media tell the truth,' we would answer 'most of the time.'

This admission would seem to undermine the main foundation of the MRC's existence, that the media is liberal-liberal-liberal. Given the generally accepted view that a majority of journalists are liberal-leaning (which the MRC is all too happy to remind you of, with lots of graphs and pie charts and stuff), this would seem to indicate that even a senior staffer at the biggest promoter of the concept of liberal media bias believes that the great majority (to use Graham's term) of news reports are not tainted by those reporters' evil liberal views -- another MRC bedrock assumption."