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Bias Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Lots of columnists and others have written their thoughts—opined—about how liberal the media is.  And some have even conducted scientific studies—such as the PEW center, using various methods. 

All studies have proven that the media is biased toward liberals, and only Marxists truly believe the media is biased toward the right.

Here’s a very interesting article called Bias Beyond a Reasonable Doubt about a study that measured whether or not, and by how much, the media is baised either toward liberals or conservatives.  It uses a diffrerent and interesting techique. 

Soon, the fact the the media is liberal-biased will have been proven in more ways than the funky concept that planet Earth is round.  And still liberals will sneer at the notion! 

These researchers use a clever statistical technique to construct an objective measure of conservative or liberal bias in the news coverage of major U.S. television and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Their main finding is that the liberal inclination of the mainstream media is clear. Among 20 major outlets, Fox News and the Washington Times emerge as conservative, but the other 18 range from slightly to substantially left of center.

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The bottom line from the Groseclose-Milyo study is that the political slant of most of the mainstream media is far to the left of the typical member of Congress. Thus, if the political opinions of viewers, listeners, and readers are similar to those of their elected representatives, the political leanings of most of the media are far to the left of those of most of their customers. This mismatch suggests profit opportunities for conservative-oriented, or at least balanced, media outlets. Fox News is probably only the beginning. Maybe the next conservative entrant will be a recreated CBS News.

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