Historical bias towards the media

·         Abraham Lincoln accused newspapers in border states of being biased toward the South. He ordered many of them to be shut down.

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·         In the years before World War II, Hitler accused newspapers of having a Marxist bias.

·         In the 1980s, the South African government accused newspapers of liberal bias and ordered censorship over them, shutting one down for a time.

·         During the Vietnam War, Spiro Agnew called anti-war protestors the "nattering nabobs of negativism.” He accused newspapers of being biased toward America.

·         During the civil rights movement, production companies were accused of bias toward mixed-race storylines. Some southern stations refused to air shows with mixed casts such as Star Trek and I Spy.