If we assume, for example sake, the country is exactly 50% left and 50% right, it makes sense that Fox, as the sole 'big' right wing news would dominate ratings.
Then you have CNN and MSNBC as left leaning outlets, so they outnumber Fox, but split viewership. According to the link above, if they merged, they'd have about the same viewership as Fox, which makes sense.
So many comments trying to compare to Europe, or try to excise liberal from left seem to miss the point.
When an election so divisive picks a side, there's your new baseline. Not what it was last year. Not what CNN did in the Clinton years, or what it's claiming to do today.
Are they not in favor of Democrats? How is that left leaning?
I.e. to someone else, Fox News isn't advocating to deport all non-whites, therefore they're just the right side of the left-wing blob.
In real life, left-wing means left-wing relative the population, not relative to you personally.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anticipatory-obedience-bassin-p...
> What do you think of our coverage?’ ‘Were our reporters being too hard on the White House and Trump?’ ‘Should [CNN chief executive] Jeff Zucker be replaced?’ It was nothing explicit, but I got the drift.”
That’s just like asking for evidence that Chinese media isn’t biased about saying anything negative about the government.
Jeff Bezos wanted the Washington Post to go soft on Trump. Here are concrete examples of his interference:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washing...
Now your turn.
In reality, CNN and MSNBC ideologically agree as much as FoxNews and Newsmax in that they don't. And CNN especially invented optimizing coverage for attention over viewpoint consistency (esp between 2000 and 2015).
But if we pretend that only those three exist(obviously they don't, you have ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, and many, many more), it's not necessarily wrong to say that media has a liberal bias, since '67% of stations are left leaning.' It just leaves out the fact that nobody really watches them in numbers.
As I see it we have one major right wing news network in America in the form of Fox; along with some smaller ones like One News Network and talk radio. We have several centrist news networks like CNN and ABC. We have several neo-liberal news sources like the New York Times.
However, we have no truly left wing mainstream news and only one major network (MSNBC) that is marginally left wing.
So it seems to me that America's media is biased towards the right whether you are counting number of outlets or number of viewers.
Someone like Bernie Sanders would be central-left here. But he's pretty much an exception in America.
No he wouldn't, have you seen his policies? He is more left wing than even Scandinavian countries, he wants the Employee funds that Sweden tried in the 80s and never went back to because it was too extreme left for them.
The Scandinavian countries aren't very left wing. They're just very rich so they have lots of money for welfare programs. But they're pretty anti immigrant. I would consider Spain more left wing.
The European right and American right essentially speak from the same ideology. As the Republicans have moved away from free markets, free trade and immigration. Trump, Farage, Weidel and Le Pen could all work happily in coalition together.
The European left has become so fractured that it's hard to make clear comparisons. Which German political party would Bernie Sanders want to join of SPD, Greens, or Die Linke? In the UK would he work with the SNP, Labour or Corbyn?
Is an odd fit I would have him with Labour. In canada he would lead the NDP.
Looking at the CDU’s manifesto I think it’s overall more palatable to the Republicans. As the Democrats would likely never support corporate tax cuts or cannabis restrictions.
https://www.cdu.de/app/uploads/2025/01/wahlprogramm-cdu-csu-...
It's always funny to hear about media bias with obvious very large alternatives available. It was very eery hearing about the Media's supposed Liberal biases through the 2020 and 2024 election campaigns with Fox News fully dominating viewership numbers [1]. And now here we go again with print media.
[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news...