During the 2012 presidential election campaign I taught an upper-level journalism seminar at the University of North Georgia titled “Media Bias in the Political Process: Real or Imagined?” My intention was to have students conduct a critical analysis of what the media were saying about presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and their families. What students discovered was not really a revelation to me, since I had spent more than 40 years in the news business, but it was a bit startling to some of them.