Reddit reviews Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues (Praeger Series in Political Communication (Paperback))

>That does not prove in any way that those journalists are incapable of providing news and information in a non-biased way.

Uh huh. And if there were more Republicans than Democrats there, I'm just certain you'd be making the same apologia for them. Also, it's worth pointing out that social psychology (a field of "science" I don't put much stock in) basically says that, no, there's no way for anyone to eliminate their own bias.

>Perhaps the causation goes the other way. Really, I'm being facetious, but that fact by itself is meaningless.

It isn't in the slightest. Nobody can isolate their own bias from their work, and the person least able to correct against this is that person. There has been a great deal of academic work on the matter as well, and the overwhelming majority of it corroborates that the media, with few exceptions, falls to the left of the American public on a variety of issues.

http://www.amazon.com/Press-Bias-Politics-Controversial-Communication/dp/0275977595

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=588453

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=573801

http://scholar.harvard.edu/barro/files/04_0614_liberalmedia_bw.pdf

No matter how you slice it, whether by stories favorable to Republicans, to the issues they cover, to the political leanings of employees, the media is absolutely biased to the Left. Denying this is to deny that the sky is blue. Or, more accurately, denying this usually requires implying that liberals are just better people than conservatives.

>The first source is even less meaningful. It says that Republicans tend to watch Fox News (duh, we already know that), and liberals tend to watch everything else except Fox News (of course, why would we watch a well-known biased news source)?

It also notes that you watch a lot more sources than conservatives. Why would you do that, if they didn't cater to your existing views?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0275977595

>Through examination of almost 700 press reports on race and homosexuality that were published in 116 different newspapers, this book meticulously documents a liberal political bias in mainstream news.

http://www.themediareport.com/

It's not just a liberal bias, it's outright brainwashing. All the pet ideas of the left are praised in the US media: Big Govt, minorities, atheism, collectivism (as opposed to individual freedom), gay rights, gun control, socialized services, Federal centralization, political correctness, affirmative action, etc etc.

And one can see the outcome right here on reddit.