If the US did have an actual liberal media....

[brewens]

57. At one time the media probably did tend to be on the liberal end. It was mostly working class kids

that got into journalism and radio. Wealthy people and businessmen didn't encourage their kids to go to school to be a newspaper reporter. There wasn't much money in it. No, you had to not mind starting out working for peanuts and miserable work hours.

That doesn't mean those highly trained people didn't do their jobs and report the news with no bias. What bias you would find was on the part of editorial staff at newspapers. That would be in the form of what stories they chose to run, where in the paper they ran them, and the headlines they went with. Many towns and cities had two daily newspapers, usually one would be conservative and the other liberal. You might find the same AP story in both papers with totally different headlines, otherwise, the readers were all getting the same facts.

Then of course the actual editorial pages were biased as they should be. Those papers didn't have any reason to try and keep that secret. A lot of people these days don't know the difference between straight news and opinion pieces.