It's natural, but that doesn't mean good. Everyone has bias but we also have the possibility to be aware of our bias, to compensate for them and attempt to lessen their impact. We certainly shouldn't give our bias free reign.
Given awareness that the hostile media effect is such a widespread phenomenom, I think it's sensible to be suspicious of our own (or any other individual's) ability to judge media bias except in the most overt and obvious cases.
I don't watch American news and I rather get the feeling that a lot / most American news is sensationalist and often partisan, so I do think that political bias is a problem in American news and sometimes it may be obvious; would anyone deny that Fox News is biased towards the right wing? However, when you want to claim that American news -in general- has a political bias... well, I'd advise caution.
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Date: 2014-06-21 11:42 pm (UTC)Given awareness that the hostile media effect is such a widespread phenomenom, I think it's sensible to be suspicious of our own (or any other individual's) ability to judge media bias except in the most overt and obvious cases.
I don't watch American news and I rather get the feeling that a lot / most American news is sensationalist and often partisan, so I do think that political bias is a problem in American news and sometimes it may be obvious; would anyone deny that Fox News is biased towards the right wing? However, when you want to claim that American news -in general- has a political bias... well, I'd advise caution.