And for the life of me I don't understand why every Republican does not point out these stats and challenge the talking head hosts when they appear on their shows, be it on Sunday morning or any of the others - slam them hard and get outraged. Instead - they play nice nice and will always be playing catch up.
There isn't much payoff in that for politicians. The people who will respond positively are already on board. Rather than win over the undecideds, politicians who point out press bias get cut up by the media for complaining. They look after their own. Look at what happened to Nixon. Since then, politicians try not to focus on press bias but try to work around it.
The Democrat Media (but I repeat myself -- BIRM) have convinced them that they'll never get their message out. Mark Halperin of TIME and (I think) The Daily Beast was boasting to Charlie Rose on PBS about this at the Republican convention. There Halperin was, the son of the Pentagon Papers traitor Morton Halperin, sitting in the Republicans' house, bragging about shutting out the main Republican messages to the voters, and slicing and dicing everything they said and spinning it to the voters in a way that the public would find incoherent and incomprehensible.
And he predicted that Clint Eastwood's great "Empty Chair" speech supporting Romney and attacking The Impostor would never be seen by the People -- and he was right. The MSM filtered that completely, as they did the GOP-produced video intended to introduce the candidate (for once without 'Rat filters and spin) to the People. The Ratboys scheduled that one completely out of the convention coverage and blacked out the entire GOP on their key candidate presentation.
Bozell is understating his case, since describing it fully and clinically would sound hysterical.