[Bodero]

Keep digging your grave, NY Times. I love this article. A seemingly innocuous headline, yet after the second paragraph, it's just a typical tirade against the Fox News Channel.

Well, NY Times, at least you're smart enough to do one thing right: pander to your base, since they're the only ones likely to hang on to your rag.

An appealing feature of their study is that it does not matter if Fox News represents the political center and the rest of the media the liberal wing, or Fox represents the extreme right and the rest of the media the middle. Fox's political orientation is clearly to the right of the rest of the media. Research has found, for example, that Fox News is much more likely than other news shows to cite conservative think tanks and less likely to cite liberal ones.

"Research has found" that Cindy Sheehan is a nutjob puppet. Thus, it is true. Thanks for your non-attributed and anecdotal facts.

[Coop]

You're even uglier in person than you are on the 'Net! ;-)

[Lancey Howard]

Fox surely injected a new partisan perspective into political coverage on television.

And this column by Alan B. Krueger is straight-forward and totally unbiased, LMAO!
Where else but in the former "paper of record" would you find something this silly?

Seriously, though - - since Krueger is so blinded by his own partisan liberalism that he apparently believes that before Fox there was no "partisan perspective" in political coverage on television, reading anything further by the guy is a complete waste of time.

[PistolPaknMama]

A politically biased article about politically biased reporting, from none other than the New York Times. Go figure.

[agitator]

The term "liberal think-tank" is an oxymoron. "Liberal emotion-tank" might come close

[mercy]

Fracking bed wetters. Can't they ever learn a new tune?!

[ditto h]

The Gray Lady is fading to black

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Research has found..."

That most people don't care what birdcage liner says these days.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Research has found..."

That most people don't care what birdcage liner says these days.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Research has found, for example, that Fox News is much more likely than other news shows to cite conservative think tanks and less likely to cite liberal ones...Fox takes pride in presenting news items that other organizations try to hide, er, a, make that overlook. Since other organizations are so biased toward the left, Fox ends up presenting lots of conservative material - libs would do well not to argue this point too vehemently.......

[Sgt_Schultze]

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.

[Echo Talon]

are they admitting that they are an arm of the liberals?

[Redbob]

"Research has found, for example, that Fox News is much more likely than other news shows to cite conservative think tanks and less likely to cite liberal ones.

Do tell.

Now would the following statement also be true:
"Research has found, for example, that the NY Times is much less likely than other news media to cite conservative think tanks and more likely to cite liberal ones."?

[nutmeg]

FoxFan ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.

[april15Bendovr]

http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2004/sum/sum063004.asp

The Liberal Media
Every Poll Shows Journalists Are More Liberal than
the American Public — And the Public Knows It

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By Rich Noyes
Director of Research
June 30, 2004
Executive Summary

     Over the next four months, the media establishment will play a central role in informing the public about the candidates and the issues. As the countdown to Election Day begins, it is important to remember the journalists who will help establish the campaign agenda are not an all-American mix of Democrats, Republicans and independents, but an elite group whose views veer sharply to the left.

     Surveys over the past 25 years have consistently found that journalists are more liberal than rest of America. This MRC Special Report summarizes the relevant data on journalist attitudes, as well as polling showing how the American public’s recognition of the media’s liberal bias has grown over the years:

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Journalists Vote for Liberals: Between 1964 and 1992, Republicans won the White House five times compared with three Democratic victories. But if only journalists’ ballots were counted, the Democrats would have won every time.


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Journalists Say They Are Liberal: Surveys from 1978 to 2004 show that journalists are far more likely to say they are liberal than conservative, and are far more liberal than the public at large.


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Journalists Reject Conservative Positions: None of the surveys have found that news organizations are populated by independent thinkers who mix liberal and conservative positions. Most journalists offer reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine. 


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The Public Recognizes the Bias: Since 1985, the percentage of Americans who perceive a liberal bias has doubled from 22 percent to 45 percent, nearly half the adult population. Even a plurality of Democrats now say the press is liberal.


http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2004/report063004_p2.asp

[SevenofNine]

YEAH YEAH what NY Liars WHATEVER

Don't be such a girlie reporters

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

It's obvious that the NYT made the editorial decision that "Fair and Balanced" is inconsequential long ago.

No one who reads that rag could have any doubt about the fact that their firm position is that there is no opinion that matters but theirs.

I pray I live to see their doors close and the assets up for auction at sheriff's sale. It's their demise or the demise of the United States, as the two are diametrically opposed in every way.

[GOPJ]

Research has found, for example, that Fox News is much more likely than other news shows to cite conservative think tanks and less likely to cite liberal ones.

Well, if CNN has 99 liberals on for every 1 conservative and FOX has 50 liberals for every 50 conservatives, FOX is much more likely to have conservatives on than CNN. But so what? FOX is being fair and CNN's not being fair. The Times doesn't care about "fair" - they care about pushing an illusion that creates a lie.

The Times messed up (as usual) by not quoting the percentages of times other networks quote liberal sources compared to conservative sources.