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Good old New York Times! Now we can figure it out for once and for all. Is the NYT really biased in one direction or another?

Austan Goolsbee writes for the NYT and figures out who is who in the bias battle. Here amongst other deep analyses, they associate words with political affiliations and terms like Terri Schiavo as catch phrase of the Republicans. Oh really??? We visited the media sources daily prior to the election and found vast leftist quantities of references to disparage Terri's Legacy. These far lefties who would have us MoveOn are themselves unable to shake the effect of her legacy and repeat her name over and over,(maybe in their efforts to purge it from their consciences or whatever replaced consciences). We see the same patterns on our threads as interlopers cry that we should MoveOn, yet cannot break themselves away from fretting.

Hear it from the New York Times...

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Dr. Gentzkow and Dr. Shapiro started in the world of the political. They parsed the words of politicians — all the words — from the 2005 Congressional Record. They found the 1,000 most partisan phrases uttered in the year. They measured this by comparing how frequently a phrase was used by one side or the other.

In 2005, phrases like “death tax,” “illegal aliens,” “Terri Schiavo,” and “nuclear power” came mostly from Republicans. Phrases like “minimum wage,” “public broadcasting,” “middle class” and “oil companies” came mostly from Democrats. Using those phrases, the two economists made a simple index of partisanship that comported nicely with standard measures like a politician’s score on the Americans for Democratic Action ideological scale.

Lean Left? Lean Right? News Media May Take Their Cues From Customers

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[8mmMauser]

These poor spectres of the left can't resist. Here they do it again, struggling (Commies love the word, "struggle".) to shape us into a fantasy box of their own design, if we would just hold still.

I wonder if their self-termed moniker, "Democratic" is part of their toy box of words. That way it sounds as if Republican is opposite of democratic good things. We are not all Republicans, but what else can the poor lefties use to catagorize us?

This comes from Slate:

Not in all cases, of course. Consider "stem cell," "cell lines," "cell research," "embryonic stem cell," "adult stem cells," "cord blood stem," "stem cell lines," and "pluripotent stem cells," all of which are captured examples of Republicanspeak. The finding that Republicans use these phrases much more often than Democrats shouldn't automatically mean a news reporter who uses any of them is expressing a conscious or unconscious bias, a view I assume Gentzkow and Shapiro would agree with. On the other hand, phrases such as "war on terror" and "Terri Schiavo" telegraph to my ears the warblings of a pure-blooded Republican, so I suspect the scholars are onto something.

Prior to reading this paper I would have associated "reform" with Democraticspeak, but Republicans have so completely co-opted the word that it doesn't appear on the Dems' list in any form. Republicans must talk incessantly about "immigration reform," "health liability reform," "UN reform," "class action reform," and "social security reform."

How To Speak Republican …… or Democratic.

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[T'wit]

>> Is the NYT really biased in one direction or another?

Of course not. It simply wants to help. Remember its advertising slogan, "I got my job through the New York Times"? It was true! Fidel Castro got his job through the New York Times. Nearly half a century later he still has it, also courtesy of the New York Times.

[floriduh voter]

Haven't I said before that Terri should be in the dictionary? How'd she manage all that if nobody would want to live that way?

There must be an easier way to get in the dictionary though... Shame on the media and the government for their betrayal!