Pew is left leaning: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1001/campaign-media These are news stories only, no op-eds.
For Obama during this period, just over a third of the stories were clearly positive in tone (36%), while a similar number (35%) were neutral or mixed. A smaller number (29%) were negative. For McCain, by comparison, nearly six-in-ten stories studied were decidedly negative in nature (57%), while fewer than two-in-ten (14%) were positive. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's rather difficult to believe that the organization doing that > "study" is in any way impartial when the page you link to has nuggets > like this: > > "The Media Research Center continuously reports on instances of the > liberal bias in the mainstream media. Daily CyberAlerts offer a > regular roundup of the latest instances of biased reporting, while our > NewsBusters blog allows Web users to post their own reactions. Media > Reality Check fax reports showcase important stories that the news > media have distorted or ignored, and several times each year the MRC > publishes Special Reports offering in-depth documentation of the > media's bias on specific issues." > > Repeatedly throughout that page it isn't a discussion of bias in the > media, it is digging for liberal bias in the media. One could > reasonably conclude that any "study" they do will be heavily geared > toward finding that liberal bias in the media. > > Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:277062 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
