"Over-the.. .last-two decades, therernmay be no more salient disagreement between liberals andrnconser vatives than over the issue of media bias."rnThere may be no issue which exemplifies the culture war in the U.S. better than media criticism. The mainstream media has been under serious attack as demonstrating a pronounced liberal bias for at least a half-century, beginning with Vice Pres. RichardrnNixon's claim in 1954 that "Radio and television commentators as well as a great proportion of the working press are on the other side." This issue always was with him and, in his famous, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" press conference pursuant to his loss for the California governorship in 1962, he said famously that "television, radio, the press," if they were "against a candidate," that they had the moral obligation to "put one lonely reporter on the campaign who will report what the candidate said now and then." Liberals and liberal journalists see such Nixon rants as evidence that he was paranoid; conservatives see them as condign outrage over liberal bias in the press.
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