Event overview
Against Bias: Tracking the Rightward Shift of Structural Press Criticism in the United States. Dr A.J.Bauer (University of Alabama, USA)
US conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against them. Why did conflict with the press become so central to conservative identity, and how has antipathy toward the media shaped the modern US conservative movement? A. J. Bauer traces how decades of right-wing criticism of the “liberal media” reshaped US news culture and came to define conservative politics.
A.J. Bauer is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama (USA). He holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University. He is author of Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press (Columbia UP, 2026) and co-editor of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures (Oxford UP, 2019).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 May 2026 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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