The discussion of media bias can be an interesting one. Imagine this:

In 1944, in the closing days of WWII, a German newspaper reports that the Nazis may have been responsbile for killing as many as 200,000 Jews in the death camps.

The Russian and Polish media are outraged at the bias of this newspaper as they used the words "may have" and their figure of 200,000 is rediculously low. They accuse the newspaper of being a Nazi propoganda tool.

The Nazi government is outraged as well and accuses the newspaper of spreading rediculous "conspiracy theories" of German death camps. They accuse the newspaper of spouting anti-German propoganda and being a mouthpiece of the Communists.

Now the question is, does this newspaper have pro-Nazi bias, anti-Nazi bias, or are they "fair and balanced"??

Think about this example next time you hear someone claim the American press has an anti-American bias. They are bias for sure, but not anti-American. The "fair & balanced" middle in this country has just become so far skewed by propoganda, that the public no longer has an idea where the real "fair & balanced" middle is. Any media source not reporting extremely pro-Bush propoganda is seen as being anti-American or having a liberal bias.