Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist

[Coda]

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[Scott Dolan]

Oh my!!


It's a good thing Brother Goodz is on hiatus!

[rollhead]

Let me guess. It was funded by the Heritage Foundation?

[Gordon B]

Originally Posted by rollhead

Let me guess. It was funded by the Heritage Foundation?

No, the authors took the pains to explain that they were not funded by left or right interests.

I found it rather interesting that the WSJ news page was the most liberal. That surely isn't the intent of the Dow Jones Corp.

I think it's a supply problem. I speculate that a large percentage of young people who choose careers in print journalism are left of center.

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by rollhead

Let me guess. It was funded by the Heritage Foundation?

Ah yes.

The good, old-fashioned attack the source and not the story tactic.

[Chris D]

Originally Posted by Coda

With scores in the mid-70s, CBS' "Evening News" and The New York Times looked similar to Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who has an ADA score of 74.

Most of the outlets were less liberal than Lieberman but more liberal than former Sen. John Breaux, D-La.

Oh, that left-wing tilt. As liberal as, gasp, Joe Lieberman! More liberaly than that lefty John Breaux! Scandal!

[clinthopson]

Could it be that journalists are a wee bit better educated and experienced than the great unwashed public?

[walto]

It seems to me like a pretty clever idea for a study, using the ADA like that.

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by clinthopson

Could it be that journalists are a wee bit better educated and experienced than the great unwashed public?

Shirley you can't be serious.

[Dr Dave]

I say it's time to just shut 'em all down. Bunch a goddam lefty nosy-parkers, the lot of them. We don't need news. Six o'clock every evening, we'll have a half-hour of Scott McLellan telling us what we need to know, and that should be enough to satisfy any Good American.

[tippy]

You could see it on the news last night. Some stations were printing "illegal transit strike" on their screens and to others it was "transit strike" without the illegal in front of it. Pretty powerful.

[rollhead]

As a former liberla (yuck! yuck!) journalist, I am proud to note that I use the blood of conservative children every morning to add extra flavor to my soy-milk decaf lattes.

http://www.whatliberalmedia.com/intro.pdf

[Al in NYC]

See... I knew those folks at Dow Jones were subtly working to undermine good ol' American values and to destroy the capitalist system. Thank god someone else noticed it in time and brought it to the attention of the public! *whew*

[Gary Sisco]

Damned liberal media:

THU - 22 Dec - JOURNALISM ALSO IN THE DOCK: We learned this week, though the 'newspaper of record' tried mightly to obscure it, that the big bad story of unconstitutional law-breaking from the Bush/Cheney regime was actually in house at the NYTimes BEFORE last November's election. We also learned that the White House and the President personally have been involved directly pressuring the 'newsaper of record' not to publish on the grounds of 'national security'. We haven't learned yet just who leaked the story and the intrique surrounding it for more than a year; but we can assume it was an insider leak by one or more fearing encroaching police state realities in our still purported to be but slipping 'democracy'. Whatever it's another case of publisher Arthur Sulzberger mishandling not just a matter of journalism and history, but a matter of the so grave that it can arguably be considered history-changing.

from blogwashington

[Scott Dolan]

God bless the bloggers.

[Dr Dave]

The study is obviously correct in its findings if even Barron's is calling for Bush's impeachment. It seems no matter how much a publication promotes itself as an organ of the capitalist establishment, it is susceptible to bizarre leftist leanings.

[Gordon B]

Originally Posted by Dr Dave

The study is obviously correct in its findings if even Barron's is calling for Bush's impeachment. It seems no matter how much a publication promotes itself as an organ of the capitalist establishment, it is susceptible to bizarre leftist leanings.

I have to follow you know to two threads? Read more carefully!

The WSJ news page was graded liberal.
The Barron's article was not a news article but an opinion piece written by the editorial page editor.

[frankiepop]

if you want a serious discussion of this issue...try alterman's:

What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News

[Gary Sisco]

These days, when words are meaningless in American politics, in any historical sense, "leftist" means anyone who doesn't agree not just with the Repub leadership. It means anyone whose reporting doesn't fit the commentator's particular viewpoint on events, world and otherwise. Whether such reporting is accurate and true is irrelevant.

The US has long been a political kindergarten but these days it's become more of an infant daycare center.