Study: Media Elite’s Campaign News More Biased than Talk Radio | NewsBusters.org — This will have the talk show guys crowing for days.
According to a new study, those news organizations that hold themselves up as the most neutral and professional — big newspapers, the broadcast networks and taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio — are actually producing campaign stories that are the most tilted in favor of Democrats, while online news and talk radio have actually been the most balanced.
The study, released Monday from the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, found newspapers and broadcast TV outlets devoted far more time to covering the Democratic candidates than the Republicans and that the tone of those stories was much more favorable to the Democrats, mirroring the results of a Media Research Center study released in August.
The PEJ study looked at a wide array of media — broadcast and cable TV, liberal and conservative talk radio, public radio, newspapers and the Internet — but in most cases used sampling techniques to keep the number of stories to a manageable amount. For daytime cable TV, for example, the group looked at just a half-hour per day of CNN, MSNBC and Fox; for newspapers, the researchers only read stories that appeared on the front-page.
#8 – TV news is biased mainly because they get their stories from the New York Times, which is very biased.
Biased… toward the truth.
Typically, the accusation of liberal bias comes from right wingers who are complaining the the corruption, deception, criminal negligence, nepotism, moral double standards, and outright thievery of the right is being reported in the first place.
I’m in favor of this bias.
#17 – (other than Ralph Nader, who suffers mightily from a combination of righteous indignation coupled with excessive dorkiness)
He also suffers from being right and from being the most successful citizen activist in the known universe… I can’t quite understand why Americans hate smart, honest, and successful candidates.
#18 – They needed to fund a study to figure this out? I could have told them this for free!
There was no “study” It’s just right wing blow hards doing what they do best… blowing hard… most likely in a men’s room at the airport.
every news outlet caters to their subscription/viewership base and skews their news accordingly
it’s called supply and demand — people only believe and will only pay for what they want to hear and are automatically skeptical of anything that differs from their personal beliefs.
If the media is so liberal, why is “liberal” a dirty word in the media?
Sheesh. Just another example of the right-wing wackos trying to “work the refs”.
DBR, keep thinking up excuses. The fact is the media plays up liberal Democrats all the time. Perhaps this type of attention for Elizabeth Dole would have gotten her further along in the primaries, though she was a terrible candidate.
#24 – Was she a terrible candidate? I don’t know.
Anyway, as for this so called “forgone conclusion” that Senator Clinton will be the next President… I don’t buy it. We aren’t anywhere near knowing that. Too much can still happen, and there are still better candidates now.
For me, Richardson and Biden are far better choices, and like Bill Clinton in 92, they still have plenty of time to rise.
Maybe Hillary Clinton would be a good President, but I’m not behind her because I oppose her on several issues that are key to me, most notably First Amendment issues. But I do know that she is not a shoe in.
Is it so hard to admit that the news media has an inherent disposition toward liberals and against conservatives. It is a fact of life that we all know and live with on a daily basis.
It’s funny how much time the media spends trying to argue that they are not biased at all. The cause is very simple – they don’t consider themselves to be biased, just enlightened. It’s not as much about liberal or conservative to them as it is about right and wrong – they are right and conservatives are wrong. That’s not bias, that’s just commons sense right?
Of course there is no place for religion in a modern society.
Of course there should be government-funded medical insurance for all Americans.
Of course the war in Iraq was based on lies and serves no purpose other than making George Bush’s cronies rich.
Of course anyone who opposes gay marriage is a knuckle-dragging bigot.
Of course a fetus is not a person and is not entitled to protection under the law.
Of course the rich should be heavily taxed in order to improve the inequity of wealth in America.
Of course Hillary Clinton will be the next president.
It’s as plain as the nose on your face – right?