On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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:277030 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
