BIAS: OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC, PART SEVEN

We've spent so much time talking about the people involved in media.

We've spent so much time talking about the various media outlets.

Today, we're going to talk about what's in the media and the debate over that.

We were at a high school in New Jersey in 1978.

The auditorium is packed with 600 people.

It's not a rock concert.

They're there for debate about important public policy, one that hadn't been discussed probably in many high schools up to its time.

It's a double standard.

The speaker says, the press glossed over what Kennedy did and what Johnson did.

But when Nixon came in, reporters focused on him with an appalling intensity.

The crowd cheers.

The man speaking is Pat Buchanan.

He's a former Nixon aide, and he's come to debate bias in the media.

The anchor Sam Donaldson sits next to him.

95% of the national press, Pat Buchanan says, is biased.

Washington is cluttered and clogged with bias.

Sam Donaldson speaks back.

It's unfair to call this some kind of conspiracy.

Like anyone in any profession, there are mistakes and errors.

We critique Carter.

Carter was president at this time.

We critique Carter when he's wrong.

But 80% of reporters are liberals, Buchanan speaks back.

The high school is crowded.

Vineland, New Jersey, where this debate's taking place, I'm familiar with it.

We've spent so much time talking about the people involved in media.

We've spent so much time talking about the various media outlets.

Today, we're going to talk about what's in the media and the debate over that.

We were at a high school in New Jersey in 1978.

The auditorium is packed with 600 people.

It's not a rock concert.

They're there for debate about important public policy, one that hadn't been discussed probably in many high schools up to its time.

It's a double standard.

The speaker says, the press glossed over what Kennedy did and what Johnson did.

But when Nixon came in, reporters focused on him with an appalling intensity.

The crowd cheers.

The man speaking is Pat Buchanan.

He's a former Nixon aide, and he's come to debate bias in the media.

The anchor Sam Donaldson sits next to him.

95% of the national press, Pat Buchanan says, is biased.

Washington is cluttered and clogged with bias.

Sam Donaldson speaks back.

It's unfair to call this some kind of conspiracy.

Like anyone in any profession, there are mistakes and errors.

We critique Carter.

Carter was president at this time.

We critique Carter when he's wrong.

But 80% of reporters are liberals, Buchanan speaks back.

The high school is crowded.

Vineland, New Jersey, where this debate's taking place, I'm familiar with it.