Posted on 12/16/2005 8:58:15 AM PST by LdSentinal
The only show I watch.
Yeah, their methodology could use some work. If their methods are correct, using the ACU rating should result in a perfectly inverse result. IE, if the ADA rating is 70%, the ACU rating should be near 30%. It'd be interesting to re-do their study using a conservative group, and then compare the results.
This statement doesn't say that "NewsHour" is centrist, only that everything else is even more liberal-biased.
The investigators are not saying "The sun is hot" (everybody knows that), but rather, "Just how hot is it?" (making an attempt to quantify the bias).
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Rush is the only one whose really found it, and he's too tired in producing outstanding radio to also produce a TV show.
But the article states "Only Fox News' 'Special Report With Brit Hume' and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter."Not identified as "centrist" by this article.
Also, the article states The most centrist outlet proved to be the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" and ABC's "Good Morning America" were a close second and third.
Don't get me wrong. I too sincerely believe Brit Hume is centrist. But according to this article, Jim Leher is centrist which is absurd.
The study should have shown that Hume is the centrist and all other tv media is left of Hume.
I'm not so sure, especially when they're giving no consideration to the positive or negative nature of a "mention". An extremely slanted story could easily report both sides on an issue while treating each of them very differently. Doing that would still score as "balanced" in this study.
Hardly. The Media Research Center has been documenting media bias for years now. But because it is operated by conservative Brent Bozell, the liberal media (in their bias) give it no credence.
How does one report a story about media bias in the very media whose bias is being exposed?
I have to agree with them about NPR. Since the Roberts hearing, I have been listening to NPR much more often than before, and I am surprised to find out that it is not as left-leaning as I thought, less so than the MSM. You can tell the "talkers" are liberal, but overall the coverage is much more balanced than I expected.
That's my thinking as well but at least this is a step in the right direction, groundwork for further study.
Oh, and another thing, I think this runs the number up to three, of university studies that have shown a liberal bias to the MSM. I believe the other studies were by the Columbia school of Journalism, and maybe Stanford? Whatever, I think the bias is undeniable.
Alert the media!
This study used content analysis, specifically, it only counting the citation to an institution deemed to tilt left or right. A more accurate, I think, to use something like discourse analysis-style (not power-based a la Focoult), which may capture the overall 'mood' of a news article. Although I'm aware that it's more subjective in assigning left/right. But having two researchers will be helpful.
From the article:
""Groseclose and Milyo then directed 21 research assistants — most of them college students — to scour U.S. media coverage of the past 10 years. They tallied the number of times each media outlet referred to think tanks and policy groups, such as the left-leaning NAACP or the right-leaning Heritage Foundation.
Next, they did the same exercise with speeches of U.S. lawmakers. If a media outlet displayed a citation pattern similar to that of a lawmaker, then Groseclose and Milyo's method assigned both a similar ADA score.""
This type of study is extremely difficult to do because of the underlying bias and subjectivity involved with politics. I think that given the inherent difficulty, the authors did their best to minimize the subjectivity as much as possible.
I am just impressed that things fell out the way most would expect...the NY Times tipping the scales way to the Left...no surprise to Free Republic, but it does give us ammunition against the Media from a study and not just Bozell's documentation (which the Media tend to ignore or disdain).
There is rarely an issue with 2 sides. NPR is the master of presenting "2 viewpoints". Both can be equally left wing.
There are too many aspects of any particular issue, and where I get the most frustrated is when a news source gives me a slanted interpretation spinning in either direction.
I wish they would just stick with the facts and let me draw my own conclusions.
Check this our for Liberal Bias:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540535/posts
Having the here used method as a foundation and then utilizing a method of the sort you're advocating as a second "layer" (so to speak) would allow a more nuanced view- as long as separation is maintained between the objective(first layer)and the subjective(second layer).
Doesn't matter..he's sure to be fired toot sweet, by
the liberal Politiburo officers that run the UCLA
for this crime against Socialism.
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