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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Bob McCroskrie: Even the left are getting sick of the left-wing media bias


We always knew that the mainstream media leans heavily left.

And that’s not an opinion. That’s a fact.

But what happens when even the left get sick of the left wing bias. It’s happening!


In NZ they have researched the political leanings of newsrooms via a Massey University Worlds of JournalismStudy published in 2022, and they found that

65% of journalists admitted that they leaned left in their political views, and just 12% leaned right.

And there has also been research on the coverage by the NZ media of some recent crucial social issues. Coverage should be balanced and close to 50/50.

During the cannabis debate in 2020, an analysis of all the media coverage found that 66% of the coverage leant in favour of a yes vote.

During the debate about a conversion therapy ban and despite concerns about freedom of expression & belief, and the criminalising of parents and pastors and professional counsellors, there was a 78% bias in support of the law

And when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the media manifested their opposition to the decision with an 82% bias against the decision.

Shocking.

And that’s why trust in the media is at an all time low.

Now please note that is not just my personal view as a social conservative. These are from random sample professional surveys.

It seems that even those on the side of the media – the left – are getting sick of the bias.

And that was on display for all to see last week.

In 2019, I actually attended a conference in Atlanta Georgia, so I popped down to check out the head office of CNN. As someone who has been heavily involved in the media, CNN was always held in high esteem – up until about 10 years ago.

Last week, left leaning host Stephen Colbert in front of a left leaning New York audience make a comment about CNN being balanced – or “objective” was the word I think he used – to a host of CNN, and the audience burst out laughing. It was very telling. Have a watch

Ouch. Remember this is a left wing host with a left wing audience with a left wing interviewee.

They almost laugh as to say – yeah we’re objective – ha ha ha ha. Sarcasm!

A couple of days later, in an interview with the same CNN host on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher,

Maher called himself a big supporter for CNN – but he also argued that many consider CNN extremely biased and he completely understands why.

“CNN is the place where both sides can watch, and I think my show is evidence of that. We have lawmakers on from both the parties. We’ll have Elizabeth Warren on one night and we’ll have Ted Cruz on another night. I think lawmakers from both parties should take questions, and you should push both of them,”

Well, that sounds nice in theory – but let me explain how that actually works. And it’s a case in New Zealandinvolving me as the token conservative.

During the same sex marriage debate back in 2013, I was invited onto 1 News Breakfast. My understanding was that it would be an interview with me. Just me v the interviewer. But for the last 18 years of doing this job, the interview is never balanced and definitely not tilted in our favour.

Not only do they bring in someone from the opposite side as another interviewee, but usually the interviewer is also against our position.

So the interview was with the breakfast host, who, of course, was certainly not on our side. But they also bought inpop psychologist Nigel Latta. Now in my view, he was deliberately positioned behind me so I couldn’t see what he was up to, but he was making faces and gestures when I was speaking. I didn’t realise this until after the interview.

But not only that. They timed the interview to the exact day when a pro same sex marriage campaign was launched by none other than the weather presentator on the breakfast show – Tamati Coffey who is gay.

And so leading into the interview, they did a puff piece. On this new campaign.

So that makes it the interviewer, one of the guests.

AND even the weather guy.

And me. The token conservative.

3 to 1. And they called it balance.

(Plus the famous people in the promo campaign.)

Have a watch of the first 2 minutes of the interview that followed the campaign advert. This is from 2013.

That sounded really fair eh

But not only were they 3:1 biased, but they were also promoting the website for the pro gay marriage website in the ribbon along the bottom.

Are you feeling sorry for me? No – don’t. These types of biased interview setups are typical of the mainstream media these days. They can’t win 1-1 so they have to stack the table.

But they claim that they’re balanced because they’ve had a stack debate with a token social conservative.

As Bill Maher said to the CNN host,

“When you look at the panel, it does look like tokenism…”

“They come across that way. In a moment like that. It was like 5 to 1..”

MSNBC make no excuse that they are rabid left wing.

But in NZ, 1News and Stuff and Radio NZ and the NZ Herald and the Newstalk ZB newsroom pretend to be balanced. But they’re not.

We all know that.

But even the left are getting sick of the left wing bias, it seems.

And that’s a good thing.

In fact, there was a study which has just been released in the US. The US Media Research Center study looked at all 2024 presidential campaign coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from July 21, the day Biden exited the race through the next four weeks. 194 reports with a combined airtime of 437 minutes.

84% positive for Kamala

89% negative for Trump. So just 11% positive.

Shocking eh.

Now you know why trust in the media is at an all-time low and will continue to deteriorate.

Just to give you one more example, let me show you the Editorial from the Press (formerly the Christchurch Press) at the weekend. It’s truly one of the most biased pieces you will ever read.

Entitled “Now the race is really on”, let me quote some lines from it

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘, “๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘”, ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘‰๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’’๐‘  ๐ท๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก, ๐‘‡๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘Š๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ง, ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ต๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.

.. ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘‰๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™–๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐ด๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›, ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’๐’› ๐’Š๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. * ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ , “๐‘Ž ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘โ„Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ”, ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘‚๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ท๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘’๐‘˜, ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’๐’› ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’„๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’†๐’…๐’๐’•๐’†.

..๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ต๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ , โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‰๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘”๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’–๐’๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’† ๐’˜๐’‚๐’“ ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’—๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”.

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘œ, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’”๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’†๐’… ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’ˆ๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’…๐’” ๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’…๐’”. ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘› “๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›” ๐‘–๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘.

๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘น๐’†๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’๐’—๐’†๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’—๐’–๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’“ ๐’”๐’‘๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’‚๐’„๐’๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’”๐’†๐’… ๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’–๐’๐’•–๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’†, ๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’š ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’…๐’–๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ป๐’“๐’–๐’Ž๐’‘ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‡๐’‚๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’š. ๐ธ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘๐‘–๐‘ง, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ท๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ.

๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘“, ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’… ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ป๐’“๐’–๐’Ž๐’‘๐’Š๐’”๐’Ž ๐’Š๐’•๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‡, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’–๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’…๐’†๐’„๐’†๐’‘๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’† “๐‘ด๐’‚๐’Œ๐’† ๐‘จ๐’Ž๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’‚ ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’• ๐‘จ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’” ๐’Ž๐’๐’—๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•.

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’• ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” “๐‘พ๐’‰๐’š ๐’…๐’ ๐‘จ๐’Ž๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’” ๐’Œ๐’†๐’†๐’‘๐’‡๐’‚๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž?” ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘? ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘˜ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’, ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐พ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.

How truly embarrassing. Editorials are usually written by the senior journalists at a newspaper. It is quite evident that the newsroom at The Press is controlled by a bunch of activists, and you’ll be able to hear the sobbing and wailing in their newsroom from Auckland if Trump does win in November.

If you pay to read the Press, you may have no cents left.

And if you rely solely on the mainstream media for watching and reading the news, maybe its your head that needs reading.

Bob McCoskrie is the National Director of Family First New Zealand, he has a Masters of Commerce with Honours from the University of Auckland and a Diploma of Teaching from the Auckland College of Education. He posts regularly on McBlog - Where this article was sourced.

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