Media bias isn’t always blatant. It’s often quite subtle.
Case in point: some of the coverage that came about after the recent huge dump of Supreme Court decisions, including upholding birthright citizenship and allowing bans on biological men in women’s sports.
On page 4 of the July 1 edition of Newsday, there was a blaring headline noting: the Supreme Court’s decision to reject President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. Right below, there was an article that quoted a number of liberal advocates in a piece entitled: “LI Immigration, legal experts, hail decision.”
Then, on page 6, the headline blared: “Bans on trans athletes okayed by high court.” We searched high and low, but we were not able to find a companion article that said: “Advocates for women athletes hail the decision.”
Why not?
If it was good enough for Newsday to put in a separate article highlighting local Long Islanders praising the liberal decision that upheld birthright citizenship, why wasn’t it good enough for Newsday to put in a subsequent article about the many people on Long Island who would have hailed the conservative decision about keeping women’s sports safe from male participation?
We also don’t think it would be too difficult to find a large number of advocates on Long Island who could help form an article entitled, “Taxpayers lament the continuation of birthright tourism.”
The reason they couldn’t find these people is that they never looked for them, as they did for the liberals praising the decision. And that, my friends, is the subtle media bias that permeates our nation today.