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In the Tank: A Statistical Analysis of Media Bias (FReep this Digg!!!)
Digg ^ | October 31, 2008

Posted on 10/31/2008 2:23:47 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

FReep this Digg!

CONFUSED?

What do I mean by "Digg to the top"?

Click on the article link that leads to Digg. Once there, hit the Digg icon on the left side (need to sign up first).

The Digg button votes the article to the top, thus insuring that thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of potential voters see our conservative articles and videos warning them about the ObamaNation!

I wouldn't waste too much time debating the Diggers. Just Digg it to the top and move on to the next one.

THIS IS ONE MORE WAY TO GET OUT THE VOTE ON ELECTION DAY!!!

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; bias; cbs; cnn; digg; diggpimp; mccain; media; msnbc; nbc; obama

1 posted on 10/31/2008 2:23:49 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts


Bill Clinton (seeking his 3rd Term) Finished Third in Battle for Campaign Coverage

2 posted on 10/31/2008 2:29:05 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: GodGunsGuts

dugg.


3 posted on 10/31/2008 2:30:50 PM PDT by pgkdan ("White folks greed runs a world in need," Jeremiah Wright as quoted by Barack Obama)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Bernard Goldberg asks some vitally important questions about the degree to which media bias affects the content and the tenor of the news Americans receive. The answers are self-evident:

Do we really think that if the media elites…were overwhelmingly social conservatives instead of liberals…that the evening newscasts would fundamentally be the same? Sure, they’d still cover tornadoes and plane crashes pretty much the same way, but do we really think they’d cover abortion and affirmative action and gay rights the same way? Or would their conservatism, reinforced by their surroundings, their friends and neighbors…influence how they see the world and how they report the news?[54]

Had Sarah Palin, rather than Joe Biden, made any of the previously cited gaffes, errors, or dire predictions, the news media would have depicted her – even more thoroughly than they already have – as an incompetent moron, a ticking time-bomb, and everything else in between. This is to say nothing of how the late-night TV comics, who have had a field day poking fun at Palin and McCain, would have reacted. A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs actually counted the number of jokes which Jay Leno and David Letterman told about the four major candidates during the five weeks immediately following McCain’s announcement that Palin would be his running mate. The totals: 180 jokes about Palin and 106 about McCain, compared to 16 jokes about Biden and 26 about Obama.[55]

Unfortunately, there is nothing funny about the distortion our media have unleashed on the American public and the disabling impact it has on national discourse.


4 posted on 10/31/2008 2:31:36 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: JaneNC
That is what the media did to Dan Quayle. He made basically no real gaffes but the media made it look like he was an idiot. The potato incident was just plain weird. I know how to spell potato but if I had it spelled out in front of me on paper as Quayle did, I would just assume that was correct.

They are trying to do the same to Palin.

5 posted on 10/31/2008 2:37:53 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: GodGunsGuts

Here’s evidence of the bias from Pew:

http://people-press.org/report/463/media-wants-obama


6 posted on 10/31/2008 2:41:35 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: pgkdan

Thank you! Let’s get on the vote!!!


7 posted on 10/31/2008 2:43:55 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: yarddog

Well, and there are two ways to spell potato...with and without the e.
It really wasn’t a gaffe


8 posted on 10/31/2008 3:06:11 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: GodGunsGuts; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator

The Digg crap is a waste of time and space.

If you can’t put the summary in the first 50 words, skip it.

I’m not going to spend my life Freeping polls against lefty teenagers.

If JimRob thinks this is a good use of the site, then I’ll accept that from him.


9 posted on 10/31/2008 3:08:24 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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To: Beelzebubba

Then don’t bother helping. Stay home between now and election day and hope for the best.

PS There are millions of moderates, independents and undecideds on Digg and elsewhere. We will be out “getting in their faces” while you occupy your familiar cot in sickbay.


10 posted on 10/31/2008 3:40:14 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Beelzebubba

Agree. Waste of time, big time.


11 posted on 10/31/2008 3:44:11 PM PDT by Misterioso ( "Socialism is an ideology. Capitalism is a natural phenomenon." -- Michael Rothschild.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I’ll let the folks in charge here weigh whether to use this site to promote some other company’s site.


12 posted on 10/31/2008 4:02:57 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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To: Diogenesis
NO NEW TAXES, NONE !
13 posted on 11/05/2008 11:01:49 AM PST by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: pgkdan

14 posted on 11/06/2008 6:39:28 PM PST by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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