Brit Hume: "The majority of mainstream media tilts to the left"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179204,00.html

The majority of mainstream media tilts to the left... that according to a revised study by UCLA, set for publication next week. Among the findings: The Wall Street Journal, despite its conservative opinion pages, is the most liberal outlet, followed by CBS' Evening News, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

In fact, of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 of them scored left-of-center. Programs ranked among the most centrist news shows include The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and ABC's Good Morning America.

The study examines U.S. media coverage over the last 10 years, comparing individual news outlets with individual lawmakers. Lawmakers were scored on the basis of votes and speeches, while media organizations were scored on their references to think tanks and policy groups.

not reality-based ones, that's for sure.

the right...you lie for a fucking living so you're lying right now.

These dumbasses...here we are with guess who running the media networks? Millionaires, getting tax breaks from Bush, conglomerated in huge monopolies controlling everything, but yes...they have secret conspiracies to lead the world in the communist conspiracy. These guys are so full of shit its coming out the corners of their mouths.

why is it I always hear moaning bout the liberal media but the only ones that are being exposed as frauds, whores and paid hacks are neo-con freaks?


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/p...n17column.html

CNS columnist is suspended
By Finlay Lewis
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
December 17, 2005

WASHINGTON – The Copley News Service announced yesterday it is suspending syndicated columnist Doug Bandow while it investigates Bandow's acceptance of payments to write favorably about some of the clients of indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

In a statement issued in San Diego, Glenda Winders, vice president and editor of CNS, said, "We are suspending Doug Bandow's column immediately. We want to make sure we have all the facts before we take final action, but it has never been our policy to distribute work paid for by third parties whose role is not disclosed by the columnist."

CNS acted after an article by BusinessWeek Online disclosed Bandow's arrangement with Abramoff, who faces a January trial in Florida on wire-fraud charges connected to his purchase of a casino-boat firm. A number of prominent lawmakers have become entangled with Abramoff including Reps. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Bob Ney, R-Ohio.

Bandow resigned on Thursday from the Cato Institute after confirming the report by BusinessWeek Online that he received payments from Abramoff for writing between a dozen and 24 articles over nearly a decade. Among the Abramoff clients who received favorable treatment from Bandow were the Mississippi Choctaws, an Indian tribe, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Attempts to reach Bandow were unsuccessful.

The BusinessWeek Online posting said that Bandow admitted accepting payments from Abramoff, and is quoted as saying, "It was a lapse of judgment on my part and I take full responsibility for it."

Winders said that Bandow has been writing his column for CNS since 1983, and that his op-ed pieces have been widely used by Copley newspapers, including The San Diego Union-Tribune.

She said that the news service has not yet determined how many of Bandow's columns may have been covered by his arrangement with Abramoff and that a final determination of his status with CNS will be made after a fuller investigation.

"We want to give him every chance to tell his side of the story," Winders said.

Cato Communications Director Jamie Dettmer said the libertarian think tank launched its own investigation after a query from BusinessWeek Online and that Bandow submitted his resignation 48 hours later.

"We established to our satisfaction that there had been a series of op-eds over several years where he received payments from an Abramoff entity," Dettmer said. "Doug admitted this was the case and acknowledged it was a serious lapse of judgment."

In another matter involving Abramoff, Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., said yesterday that he would return about $150,000 in donations from the lobbyist and his clients and associates.

According to The Associated Press, Burns met on at least eight occasions with Abramoff and his lobbying team in 2001. The report said he pocketed about $12,000 in donations at about the same time he took steps favorable to the Northern Mariana Islands

UCLA released it already

http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664

Huh. Whadaya know! All this time I guess I've been reading it upside down or something.

THAT'S the accurate picture.

According to that UCLA "study". :crazy:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5629294

While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.

Edit to add link

Shite! Maybe somebody running the study is a mole and made sure the results of the study showed BULLSHITE!

:eyes:


Read this:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001169.html

Brit Hume is to media bias as _________ is to __________.

my favorite quote from the study

I hate the liberal media....

who did the report was on Tucker Carlson's show tonight and he said that except for one show, FOX News does not lean either way....HAHAHAHA!

I THINK I WILL USE THE REPORT AS TOILET PAPER TONIGHT....

But then again, so is Attila-the-fucking-Hun.

...itself has a liberal slant!