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Mass Media | Media Bias Is a Serious Problem

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas has worked in both print and broadcast journalism, including a twenty-year stint as a reporter for Time magazine. She is on the editorial board of Voices, a publication of Women for Faith & Family, a Roman Catholic women’s organization. In the following viewpoint she argues that many members of the news media do not share mainstream American values. She claims that their collective liberal bias has resulted in slanted news coverage and the manipulation of public opinion. Americans must be especially careful and vigilant in separating truth from...

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