Ironically, in his closing chapter--a tirade against presumed left-wing media bias--Taylor called for more media competition to ensure press freedom.

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Indeed, the dismissal came on the same day that Irina Khakamada, an opposition candidate, said that she and several others were talking about jointly withdrawing from the March 14th poll in protest at pro-Putin bias in the media and by the election authorities.

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As Beverley Goldman from the South African Zionist Federation explained at a Zionist conference in Cape Town two weeks ago, the anti-Israel bias of the South African media is overwhelming.

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"You just have to look at the blogs (to see that) there is a lot of argument about judging bias and refereeing bias, " said Edis, now a new-media professor at New York University.

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Social media mining will give you a real-time picture, but not necessarily the deeper formed bias.

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They aim to avoid the pitfalls of media bias, and because they are new, they have managed to move straight to a fee-based structure.

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No less an authority than Jon Stewart has pointed out, several times, the strange bias in the media against giving Paul his due, or asking hard questions of his many hyper-libertarian positions.

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