Help me out here, please?

A Repug acquaintance just sent me this article that cites a study showing major media tilts to the left. Help me debunk this?

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx

Media Contacts News Releases About UCLA

Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
By Meg Sullivan| 12/14/2005 5:36:31 PMWhile 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.

These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."

WHO OWNS THE MEDIA?

Rupert Murdoch - right wing media king

Reverend Moon - crazy preacher and right wing donor. (My favorite Moon story is that he was part of Ashcroft's anointing with vegetable oil when he became AG.)

Disney - right wing company

Viacom - right wing company

Now don't you know that the owners dictate the content of the news?

Librul media my arse.

...they own NBC.

GE's CEO, Jeff Immelt, has donated much to the GOP.

For the nasty media entanglements, click this link from The Nation.

This one pretty much covers it all!

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003

Former fellows at conservative think tanks issued flawed UCLA-led study on media's "liberal bias"

Best thing I've read all night.

...when asked about this very subject, he said (and I'm paraphrasing) it was because the GOP confuses "liberalism" with "journalism".

It then uses the ADA vote preference as the standard - there is no similar conservative bench mark used/

That means when things are bi-partisan they are assigned a "left" score.

"surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican" refers to an opt-in survey with about 5000 responses - not very "scientific"

They used the number of times a program cited a liberal or conservative group in a story such as NAACP or heritage foundation.

A liberal program would ignore conservative groups, A conservative program would cite a liberal group in order to attack them. It seems to not give any weight to the stories meant to put liberals in a bad light.

It said that it was an objective study, but someone drew a line somewhere.

Liberals give press conferences and get on TV, conservatives say nothing or issue some of the most boring press releases ever.

"Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist."

:rofl:



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dp

to the opinions of everyman. Only a repressive society would worry that the press was being too liberal.The truth must be ferreted out and a fact checking comparative investigative unfettered and unlobbied press can best clean out corruption.