Harvard Study Confirms Liberal Media Bias

The Bulletin ^ | 11/07/2007 | Herb Denenberg

[dearolddad]

Interesting use of paragraphs.

Paragraphs? We don't need no steeenkin paragraphs.

[goodwithagun]

I am printing out this article and giving a photocopy of it to all of my seniors in American Literature Advanced Comp. II. They are about to start research papers on the Civil Rights Movement.

[Lucas McCain]

Truly shocking. Not.

[BluH2o]

An encouraging development is that the left-tilting newspapers are rapidly losing circulation, and the public is catching on to the fact that the mainstream media can simply no longer be trusted and should best be avoided.

Great summary.

[pilipo]

There is a place in heaven for you.

Thanks for your effort!

[Little Ray]

While there isn’t any doubt about the Drive-by Media being a bunch of commie pinkos, why do believe anything coming out of Harvard?

I think we need a “Captain Obvious” here...

[Disambiguator]

We used to joke about going to the beach to watch the sun rise...when I lived on the West Coast. It was a useful drunk test. If someone agreed that it was a cool idea, you know they’d had too much to drink.

[Stayfree]

I have a theory why liberals shun religion, conservatism, etc. and grasp onto the most ridiculous ideas on earth.
Since liberals are die-cast believers in Darwin's theory about evolution, when they get older and are exposed to the reality of life, that God is real and everything he created is in fact a masterful work of genius totally beyond the comprehension of the human mind...such a confrontation between fact and fiction (where they came from fiction) must be extremely distressing. I know it is anecdotal, but almost every liberal I have met is a miserable wasteland with no soul and trapped in a shell of deceit!

[nmh]

Paragraphs are friends to readers!

When I have some time, I may reformat it for you.

[nmh]

Thanks for reposting it.

BTW, anyone seen the MIT study that clarifies Hilary’s latest “solution” to energy? According to an MIT study it will cost us 25% MORE and not solve the energy issue.

[Mack the knife]

Where is Captian Obvious when you need him???

[Iron Munro]

Link to original at IBD with paragraph breaks included!!!!

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=278808786575124

[nmh]

Thanks again!

[Cacique]

btt

[GOPJ]

In other words, the mainstream media (which is the subject of most of the survey) not only gives out biased and distorted information but also gives out information of little help to the public trying to make intelligent decisions about candidates. Almost all the stories are about the game of politics - such matters as polling, advertising, tactics and fundraising. The important stories such as candidates' positions, background and record are downplayed or virtually ignored.

When you throw in Hollywood, random "arts" groups, creepy "popular" culture (who's the ho"), it's flat out amazing that any Republican has ever been elected.

[GOPJ]

...anyone seen the MIT study that clarifies Hilary’s latest “solution” to energy? According to an MIT study it will cost us 25% MORE and not solve the energy issue.

When you find that study, please PING me... Or better yet, post it for all of us.

[Lord_Baltar]

Hey William, can you try and split this thing up into a more reader friendly posting???

[AFreeBird]

I used to live on the west coast; In Florida you can watch it rise or set from the beach. In certain parts, all you have to do is turn your seat around. :)

[GOPJ]

ping

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“Even Harvard Finds the Media Biased.” Yes, Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), a financial newspaper, hit it out of the park with that headline and the story on this study, which it summarized as follows: “The debate is over. A consensus has been reached. On global warming? No, on how Democrats are favored on television, radio and in the newspapers.”

IBD was too polite to also point out that Harvard is one of the centers of the left-wing liberalism, so when it admits to media bias in favor of Democrats, that carries extra weight. And here’s something else that proves the point of the story: how the mainstream media blacked out the story, which runs contrary to one of its basic tenets that denies the liberal bias in the media.

[Milhous]

Harvard-PEJ study proves media bias, essentially accuses Old Media of fraud. Why aren’t Old Media leaders defending themselves? 11/2/07

Posted by Steve Boriss in Bias.
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In most industries, if a new study came out proving a company had made false claims about their product that harmed the public, we know exactly what would happen. The company would immediately seek public exposure to defend itself vigorously, or announce they were investigating the charges, or apologize profusely while proclaiming that such a thing would never happen again. Yet, Investors Business Daily reports that newspapers and network TV news have been caught making false claims about their objectivity, prompting — nothing — no news industry reaction at all. A joint survey by two institutions revered by journalists, Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, proved that newspaper and network TV coverage of the current presidential race has been overwhelmingly sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans. In newspapers, the ratio of positive to negative stories about Democrats was more than 5-to-1, while for Republicans negative stories outnumbered positive ones by 50%. On network evening news, twice as many stories about Democrats were positive, while twice as many stories about Republicans were negative. Democrats also get more coverage overall.

The fact that not a single one of these news enterprises has stepped forward to defend its behavior, announce an investigation, or apologize speaks ill of their leadership, who can justifiably be accused of either lack of courage, lack of integrity, or both. Lack of courage, because they might fear business losses from admitting to the public that they have been misleading them about the quality of their news product. Lack of integrity, because they allow this deceit to continue and fail to insist that their newsrooms report on corruption within their own industry as they would on others. Journalism as a discipline has a crisis of leadership and it is contributing to its demise.