(via LGF)  Keep this picture in mind next time you see press coverage of some protest rally somewhere on the globe -

Ratio of press-weenies to protestor-dorks?   I count about 11-to-1.    What if they threw a protest and no one reported it?   It wouldn't be much of a protest.  What came first, the protestor or the press?    My hunch would be that all these photographers were standing around just waiting for someone to do something, anything, please!

Press bias is never about the direct falsification of facts.   If it were, it would be trivial to detect and write about.   Instead, it's about misrepresentation and weighing of facts.   The bias here is that all of these weenies consider this dude's act of protest so significant.   They're standing around eagerly waiting to report on the datapoint that confirms their own biases (in this case, the one about global youth valiantly fighting the corporate / government hegemony that keeps all of us down).  Someone's potential Pulitzer no doubt rides on the closest cropping of the picture that "focuses" on all the agony and despair in this idiot's face.

And once they've got their money shot it lands in news print.   

I commend Victor Ruiz - the photographer who grabbed this shot.   The press prides itself to no end on exposing and reporting on the theatrics it discovers in other people's business.   Victor's shot captures the theatrics of the photo-journalist biz;  a critical look in the mirror we need to see a LOT more of.