NY Times acknowledges the obvious

Weekly Example of Media Bias   —   Posted on October 2, 2013

From a post by OpinionJournal.com’s editor James Taranto (original post date 6/17/13):

The New York Times reports on a new study with a blindingly obvious conclusion:

News organizations are far more likely to present a supportive view of same-sex marriage than an antagonistic view, according to a content study by the Pew Research Center to be released on Monday [June 17].

…No way! But actually there is news here, in that the leading [mouthpiece] of America’s left-liberal media has published an acknowledgment – if only a second-order one – of its own bias. Pew also looked at Twitter posts and found them “almost evenly divided between support and opposition for the measure – closely reflecting public opinion.”

“The study lends credence to conservative charges that the nation’s news media have championed the issue of same-sex marriage at the expense of objectivity,” writes the Times’s Brian Stelter. “Others have argued that news organizations are right not to overly emphasize opposition to what many see as a core civil rights issue.”

To sum up: The so-called mainstream media are overwhelmingly biased in favor of a position on which the public is evenly split. Within the media, there are two prevailing attitudes toward this bias: denial and defiance. Even opponents of same-sex marriage, by and large, don’t argue the media should be biased against it, but it would be nice if someone somewhere in the MSM would acknowledge both that the bias exists and that it is problematic.