ivwshane
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Yes we only have anecdotal evidence, but not all anecdotal evidence is equal value. My anecdotal evidence is that I extensively read news media every day, for years on end, and this view is not one I have commonly encountered. The problem with google search evidence is that American media writes millions of words a day in the form of thousands of articles. And a huge percentage of those articles are now online and searchable. Hence, you can find a relatively long list of articles espousing pretty much any arguably reasonable viewpoint.
But your emphasis on how many articles you can find expressing the view is also overlooking something else that is important. It's the number of articles written about police violence which talk about racism and a culture of violence among police but mention nothing about guns. I think it is ludicrous to ever discuss it without even mentioning what is causing 80%+ of the killings. If I were to use my time to look around, how many links do you suppose I could find showing exactly that?
And none of that is even addressing liberal places in social media, such as right here on P&N, where it is consistently never brought up, and when one poster brings it up, there is literally no reply whatsoever.
To claim there is no bias at work here is absurd.
If your argument hinges on “liberal social Media” not bringing it up then you have a fairly weak argument.