Last presidential deabte, was there a winner?

[Tino]

First I've heard of any of this. Can you link to any evidence? I'm curious.

First, didn't we all learn in Social Studies or some similar class in middle school/jr high/sr high that all news sources have a bias that needs to be understood and taken into account when considering a news story?

Given that, I don't know why there is any surprise that bias exists, but here's a study from UCLA concluding that yes, media bias is real. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Med...-6664.aspx It's a tricky area to study, and coming up with an objective means to measure bias is difficult, but I thought the methodology in the UCLA study was interesting.

I've already discussed with you how the media is owned by six major corporations. They have a vested interest to promote conservative economic policies expected to be corporate friendly.

Yes I've seen this in a chart someone posted and I've seen you mention it before, but I haven't seen the evidence that the bias follows the ownership chain. Also, there is money to be made in serving audiences interested in a particular bias, eg FoxNews on the right and MSNBC on the left, so a given mega-company could conceivably cater to both on purpose.

I've never seen any evidence of the existence of a "liberal media" but maybe you can provide me with something to review.

Again, all news is biased. The prominent ones biased to the right are FoxNews, Wall Street Journal (editorials), Investors Business Daily and Washington Times. While not really news sources, the majority of talk-radio is biased right as well, but those are primarily commentators. The rest of the prominent sources, often referred to collectively as the mainstream media, are biased to the left, including ABC, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, CNN, PBS and the New York Times. The New York Times is particularly potent because it has become more radically to the left, and it is the bellwether that most other news sources watch, and take cues from. Since these are the major outlets reaching the majority of Americans, the basic news message most people receive is biased left. If your political views lean left as well, these news sources just sound "correct" to you, because they're reflecting a common world view, so the effect is to take them as representing the "center." However they are biased with a politically liberal view, and the success of right-biased outlets in recent years has been to offer a comparable news experience for the conservative/right leaning audience.