Media Bias

This is an excerpt from my capstone on column writing. I thought it fit well. I hope to hear people's thoughts.

"The biggest issue that journalists face in their writing is bias. All writers have their own thoughts, and while columnists are able to use their personal bias in their writing, journalists can not. In the book Bias, Bernard Goldberg explores bias in the media. He wrote that in many of the news organizations liberal thoughts overtake the writing and reporting in both editors and reporters because reporters write what the editor wants. However, he went on to say that being a liberal journalist is acceptable to most reporters “as long as we keep out biases out of the stories we cover, [because] what’s the difference how we feel about abortion or gun control?” (Goldberg, 118). While bias will always be in a reporters mind, journalists need to make their biases disappear in order to write both sides of the story."