He said:
Pegging tech platforms as liberal conduits isnt new.
Accusing them of silencing conservative voices isnt either.
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Google, for its part, denies any culpability.
Search is not used to set a political agenda and we dont bias our reports toward any political ideology.
Nor does altering its search results to silence conservative media.
Its worth taking the company at its word on this one.
She started with an image originally created by conservative media personality Sharyl Attkisson.
Its accuracy is questionable, at best.
Its research that Trump undoubtedly saw when Fox personality Lou Dobbs picked up the story.
Whats really happening?
Google is biased, but not like youd think.
Any bias doesnt come from engineers or C-level executives, but from the people who use it most often.
Relevance does not necessarily equal quality, although it typically does.
This is a factor Bolyard overlooked in completing her research.
TakeThe New York Times.The Timeshas won 125 Pulitzer Prizes, the top award in journalism.
None of the conservative sites Bolyard listed come close.
None, in fact, have ever won a Pulitzer.
In the broadcast world, the Pulitzer equivalent is the Peabody Award.
Fox has never won one.
CNN, by comparison, has taken home eight of them since 2010.
History matters, as do traditionaljournalistic values.
Its not about political leaning, its about quality of work: original reporting, depth, and accuracy.
These are billion-plus dollar organizations with thousands of reporters covering various beats.
Its not about ideology, its about quality.
On the right thatsFox News, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, andThe Economist.
Its an arms race, and one the right is losing.
These are the outlets that break their own stories, but not as often as those listed above.
Theres no conspiracy
Conservatives in media are a minority.
A2014 studyreports only seven percent of working journalists identify as right-leaning.
Rather than raging against the machine, conservatives would be better served graduating more right-leaning kids from journalism school.
Thats not to say that traditional media is infallible.
When playing a game of incomplete information, nobody gets it right all the time.
Bolyard seeks a comparison where one doesnt exist.
This isnt a conspiracy, its a case study in quality journalism.
Story byBryan Clark
Bryan is a freelance journalist.Bryan is a freelance journalist.
