Reporting routines themselves, not political views, produced pro-climate-denial coverage.

Evidence

In a 2004 study entitled “Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press,” Maxwell Boykoff and Jules Boykoff found that the norm of “balanced reporting” had caused the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal to seriously mislead the public on climate change. The problem here was not any so-called political bias. It was instead what the researchers call “information bias,” which is when the news gathering and reporting routines of journalists result in coverage that is distorted from the truth. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 169

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘information bias’ as distinct from political bias, a useful analytic term.
• XREF: connects to: Major news outlets abandoned false-equivalence coverage of climate change — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 317