>Once again, if you ae so blinded by your liberalism to see it, nothing I can >do or say will make it any clearer.
all he's asking for is some real evidence, not some hot winded blathering from some talking head. Here look through some of these articles on the topic. You'll find that the consistent finding is that there is little actual so-called liberal media bias. Rather it would appear that Fox News shows a significant bias towards the right wing. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=media+bias+research&num=100&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=2004&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a Here's an interesting meta-analysis that was done Media bias in presidential elections: a meta-analysis D D'Alessio & M Allen, Journal of Communication, Volume 50 Issue 4, Pages 133 - 156 ABSTRACT A meta-analysis considered 59 quantitative studies containing data concerned with partisan media bias in presidential election campaigns since 1948. Types of bias considered were gatekeeping bias, which is the preference for selecting stories from one party or the other; coverage bias, which considers the relative amounts of coverage each party receives; and statement bias, which focuses on the favorability of coverage toward one party or the other. On the whole, no significant biases were found for the newspaper industry. Biases in newsmagazines were virtually zero as well. However, meta-analysis of studies of television network news showed small, measurable, but probably insubstantial coverage and statement biases. Research has shown a substantial bias effect for Fox News: The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting* Stefano DellaVigna & Ethan Kaplan The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2007, Vol. 122, No. 3, Pages 1187-1234 Abstract Does media bias affect voting? We analyze the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its impact on voting. Between October 1996 and November 2000, the conservative Fox News Channel was introduced in the cable programming of 20 percent of U. S. towns. Fox News availability in 2000 appears to be largely idiosyncratic, conditional on a set of controls. Using a data set of voting data for 9,256 towns, we investigate if Republicans gained vote share in towns where Fox News entered the cable market by the year 2000. We find a significant effect of the introduction of Fox News on the vote share in Presidential elections between 1996 and 2000. Republicans gained 0.4 to 0.7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News. Fox News also affected voter turnout and the Republican vote share in the Senate. Our estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 28 percent of its viewers to vote Republican, depending on the audience measure. The Fox News effect could be a temporary learning effect for rational voters, or a permanent effect for nonrational voters subject to persuasion. Personally I think that perceptions of bias is mostly in the eye of the beholder. And there is some data to back that opinion up: Why Partisans See Mass Media as Biased Kathleen M. Schmitt, Albert C. Gunther & Janice L. Liebhart Communication Research, Vol. 31, No. 6, 623-641 (2004) Partisan groups, highly important actors in public discourse and the democratic process, appear to see mass media content as biased against their own point of view. Although this hostile media effect has been well documented in recent research, little is understood about the mechanisms that might explain it. Three processes have been proposed: (a) selective recall, in which partisans preferentially remember aspects of content hostile to their own side; (b) selective categorization, in which opposing partisans assign different valences to the same content; and (c) different standards, in which opposing partisans agree on content but see information favoring the other side as invalid or irrelevant. Using new field-experiment tests with groups of partisans who either supported (n = 87) or opposed (n = 63) the use of genetically modified foods, we found evidence of selective categorization and different standards generally. However, only selective categorization appeared to explain the hostile media effect. Generally when I hear someone having a verbal temper tantrum about media bias I generally suspect that they're really having other issues with the topic at hand. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277026 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
