Media Bias in The New York Times National News Desk As Evidenced by the Labeling of Interest Groups, 1992-2001By xm177e2 The survey was done with LEXIS-NEXIS. Articles must include "National Desk" in their full text (so only articles from the National news desk of the New York Times are included in this analysis), and must not include the words "News Analysis" (as those are basically editorials). Unlike certain other purported studies of media bias, this survey analyses only actual news articles, and not other parts of the paper (such as letters to the editor). "Total"--total number of articles to contain...