Is there a mainstream media bias towards liberal causes? Of course there is. Does it matter? Not nearly as much as it did in the 1980's. Yes, even some liberals were bothered about how biased it was back then. Now, it doesn't matter nearly as much because we can get our news from so many different sources. If I worked for the mainstream media (CBS, NBC, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post) I'd be terrified. Their sales and ratings are in a a free fall and there is no way they can get back to where they once were. The way they deliver the news is a dinosaur in todays society.
I've seen conservatives rail about the media bias, but in reality it doesn't matter. Trump winning sort of proved that the mainstream media has lost a huge amount of power. Virtually every mainstream media source was against him and yet he still won. In a few years, the mainstream media will have even less power. The average viewer/reader of the network news and newspaper is considerably older than the average American (no, that's not an insult)-those people I think watch the networks and read the papers more out of habit than idealogical agreement.
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