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To: Bodero
Alan B. Krueger didn't come up in my opensecrets search, but I did perform a search with the only criteria being Princeton as the employment.

So many results - too many to list in fact. Those results came as no surprise - democrat contributors, including the real nutjobs - Dean, MoveOn, ACT, Emily's List, etc. There weren't visible republican numbers among the faculty. That leads me to conclude that Prof. Krueger is similarly disengaged from reality and is not an impartial evaluator of the facts in this topic. That might explain his gratutious assertion that "Fox surely injected a new partisan perspective into political coverage on television."

I don't remember, but I think it was the Fox network which knowingly aired some fabricated memos as legitimate historical documents - in an obvious effort to damage G.W. Bush.

14 posted on 08/17/2005 8:40:12 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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I specifically remember reading about the "research" regarding think tanks.

It was done at Stanford, and it compared and contrasted how often various media networks cite conservative vs. liberal think tanks, and compared this to how often these think tanks are cited in congress.

The concluded that Fox cited both liberal and conservative think tanks at about the same rate as congress, while the other networks cited liberal think tanks far more often than conservative ones, and at a disproportionate rate to how they are mentioned in congress.

Far be it from the Grey Lady to truthfully report what the "research" actually said...

Instead of reporting the fact that the research indicated that all the networks were far to the left of the mainstream and disproportionately cite liberal think tanks, they try to imply that the research indicated bias on Fox' part.

Someone should dig this one up...


16 posted on 08/17/2005 8:58:18 PM PDT by Chameleon
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