MEDIA BIAS DEBATE: Does the Mainstream Media Give a Fair Representation of the News? - Wolfman Productions
 

...or are there ulterior motives at work? Are networks like Fox News merely mouthpieces for the Republican Establishment? Are newspapers like the New York Times guilty of having an inherent leftwing agenda? Media bias is an issue that is being examined more now than ever before. The proliferation of news sources, many owned by major conglomerates, has left many Americans wondering if the news is serving the public good, or merely serving the bottom line. In this debate, noted media critics Steve Rendall or Peter Hart and Cliff Kincaid discuss the important issue of bias in mainstream media, as well as the rise of blogs and other alternatives to traditional news sources.

   
 

 

Steve Rendall is FAIR's (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) senior analyst. He is co-host of CounterSpin, FAIR's national radio show. His work has received awards from Project Censored, and has won the praise of noted journalists including Les Payne, Molly Ivins and Garry Wills.

He is co-author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error.

Rendall has appeared on dozens of national television and radio shows, including appearances on NBC Nightly News, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News, MTV and more. He was the subject of a New York Times profile (5/19/96), and has been quoted on issues of media and politics in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and New York Times.

Rendall contributed stories to the International Herald Tribune from France, Spain and North Africa; worked as a freelance writer in San Francisco; and worked as an archivist collecting historical material on the Spanish Civil War and the volunteers who fought in it.

Rendall studied philosophy and chemistry at San Francisco State University, the College of Notre Dame and UC Berkeley.

Peter Hart is the activism director at FAIR. He writes for FAIR's magazine Extra, and is also a co-host and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin.

He is the author of The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.

Hart has been interviewed by a number of media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Associated Press. He has also appeared on Showtime and in the movie Outfoxed.

   

 

Cliff Kincaid serves as editor of the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report, the oldest media watchdog organization in the U.S. A veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff concentrated in journalism and communications at the University of Toledo.

He substituted for Pat Buchanan on CNN's Crossfire and worked for Oliver North. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, the NBC Nightly News, CNN, and the Christian Broadcasting Network. Through his America's Survival, Inc. organization, he is an advocate for the victims of terrorism and organizes conferences and publishes reports critical of the United Nations.

   
 

His books include:
Profiles of Deception (with Reed Irvine) 1990.
The News Manipulators (with Reed Irvine and Joseph C. Goulden) 1993.
The Hijacking of American Foreign Policy (2003).
Why You Can't Trust the News (with Reed Irvine and Notra Trulock) 2003.

   
 
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