Voices is the Dorset Echo's weekly youth page - written for young people by young people.

This week Oliver Streather-Paul discusses political bias in the national press.

Thankfully in Britain I believe we have a slightly more interesting political system than America.

However both nations fall into the same pit with the press – a 2002 study by Jim A. Kuypers titled ‘Press Bias and Politics’ revealed that, out of 800 reports by 116 newspapers, all of the mainstream papers "operated within a narrow range of liberal beliefs."

This translates into politicians – party regardless – speaking outside of this ideal either receiving negative press or becoming subject a blind eye - to paraphrase the study.

Whilst ‘globalist’ has become a buzzword for those with a right-leaning agenda, the lack of critique for the implications of unlimited free trade within the press – or the active denigration of those with conservative ideologies suggests that there is an underlying corporate agenda for the major national press.

The necessity to filter out a free-market agenda from my dispatch of The Economist and The Telegraph and the social liberalism from The Guardian leaves me scratching my head at why there is not a large newspaper (aside from neo-conservative outlets such as Fox and Sky) priding itself in either being non-partisan or pushing an unusual and challenging perspective to hold the powers that be to account.

I observe that Donald Trump’s corporate tax cut was conveniently slipped (or rather, buried with excessive haste) under the rug whilst the slightest hint of social conservatism raises the question, “is Trump a fascist?” - to quote CNBC.

Whilst Trump doesn’t do much to fight his case on Twitter, I contest the use of fascism is loaded and frankly ludicrous with the blatant intent to shock – and be it intentional or not, gain a reaction.

I kindly ask that major media outlets cease to inject the papers with allusions to or support of the comparison to Nazism, for they are untrue and discredit the true horrors of fascism.

By Oliver Streather-Paul