Phil scolds: I assumed you were interested in balanced coverage. Now I realize you are only interested in showing the bias of media. My bad. Carry on.
Responding to John, I wrote: "It interests me because it might herald the beginning of a new science of weighing the everyday propaganda that makes us have, in Roth's words, "the emotions of a child and the pain of an adult."
Perhaps you, Phil, could explain how balanced coverage could be attained without absolute totalitarian control of all news media, mandating pica-size of magazine cover photos and column-inches of newspaper articles?
Since it's better not to have a despot setting terms of balance, one assumes the best we can hope for is awareness of the bias. But I thought you were interested in the topic. My bad. Carry on.
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