{"id":735,"date":"2006-10-17T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/media-bias-the-ugly-truth\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:15:00","slug":"media-bias-the-ugly-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/media-bias-the-ugly-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Media bias: The ugly truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how clearly you can see things in hindsight.<\/p>\n<p>Like media bias, for instance. During the 22 years I worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, if\u00a0you had told me the media were biased, I&#8217;d have wanted to arm-wrestle you.<\/p>\n<p>But here we are, 12 years later.\u00a0In the column I wrote for Bulldog Reporter this week, I admit\u00a0the ugly truth, plead guilty, and\u00a0explain what it means for anyone who does PR or wants publicity. (It&#8217;s the third article on the page.)<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, the old rules don&#8217;t apply anymore, and we&#8217;re no longer at the mercy of the media to deliver our message. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how clearly you can see things in hindsight. Like media bias, for instance. During the 22 years I worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, if\u00a0you had told me the media were biased, I&#8217;d have wanted to arm-wrestle you. But here we are, 12 years later.\u00a0In the column I wrote for Bulldog Reporter\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/media-bias-the-ugly-truth\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":615,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615],"tags":[168,620,29,605,13,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-print-media","7":"tag-crisis-communications","8":"tag-how-to-interview","9":"tag-media-relations","10":"tag-news-events","11":"tag-press-releases","12":"tag-promotions","13":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40806,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/40806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}