Media bias in the Democratic primary

Tomas McIntee
Towards Data Science
9 min readNov 3, 2019

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There are two types of bias at play in the media, and both contribute to unfairness: Bias in tone, and bias in volume. For example, an op-ed attacking Beto O’Rourke’s use of a Latino nickname is biased in tone; an infographic of candidate fundraising including all the top fundraisers except for Andrew Yang is an example of bias in volume.

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Dr. Tomas McIntee is a mathematician and occasional social scientist with stray degrees in physics and philosophy.