liberal bias
Progressive editorial favoritism
Liberal bias is a tendency to favor left-leaning political views in reporting, analysis, or institutional culture.
The term is most often used as a criticism by conservatives who perceive mainstream media, academia, or entertainment as systematically slanting toward progressive positions: The study claimed to document liberal bias in network news coverage.
Whether such bias is real, pervasive, or consequential remains contested across the political spectrum.
- progressivismPhilosophy advocating societal reform
- motivated reasoningBiased cognition favoring preferences
- identity politicsCollective action via shared characteristics
- agenda-settingControlling which issues dominate
- groupthinkConformity-driven poor decisions
cancel culture · journalistic ethics · misinformation · echo chambers · egalitarianism · diversity initiatives · political correctness · multiculturalism · activism · environmentalism · cultural relativism · grassroots movements · feminism · cognitive dissonance · libertarianism · mainstream media · fake news · intersectionality
- media biasslant, partisan, partiality, one-sided, skew
liberal biasobjectivity
Freedom from personal bias
neutrality · impartiality · journalistic integrity · even-handedness · nonpartisanship
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