Pew Research Center Survey: Fox News is most conservative news net, CNN is most liberal

Pew Survey Rates Ideology of News Networks
by John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable


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So I guess that despite the popularity of websites like this one, Huffington Post, Think Progress, Crooks & Liars, and the rest of the left-wing blogosphere, I see a lot of people still buy the "liberal media" theory propagated by Media Research Center, etc.

Out of 1,000?

Wow. Cheeto dust contact high?

Well, and possibly a cave dweller or someone without cable.

Well the MRC has managed to find occassions where Fox News has been "Liberal".

-For example, one of its NewsBusters bloggers, Justin McCarthy, claimed that Gretchen Carlson of Fox and Friends gave Hillary Clinton (during her senatorial career) a "http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2007/12/17/conservative-fnc-fox-friends-puffs-hillary-clinton">softball interview". But then the FNC critical blog News Hounds (so much better than NewsBUSTERS) found a couple other examples of Hillary-bashing on the same show, Fox and Friends, the next couple days:

-In 2001, MRC claimed that Fox News's coverage of the Kyoto Protocol (which failed epicly in the Senate back in 2001) was just as biased on behalf of the pro-protocol voices as that on those evil librul channels, ABC, CBS, and NBC.

- When former Governor of Georgia Lester Maddox, a segregationist, died in 2003, MRC noted that every news channel (including FNC) didn't mention that Maddox was a Democrat.

- In 2002, Bozell criticized FNC for hiring hosts who he thought were liberal, Geraldo Rivera and Greta Van Susteren.

- When Fox News announced it'd replace Tony Snow with Chris Wallace as host of Fox News Sunday, MRC's vice president Brent Baker brought up http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20031028.asp#4">examples of how he thought Wallace had a liberal bias when Wallace worked with ABC during the 1990s. But Baker doesn't provide any examples of how Wallace expressed left-wing views in his reporting as NBC News White House correspondent during the 1980s...just one measly example from the 1988 conventions where Wallace treated the Democratic and Republican interviewees equally tough apparently.

- As Terry Krepel, Media Matters for Amhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.phperica senior editor, points out in his side project ConWebWatch, MRC often http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/mrcfoxbias.html">mindlessly defends Fox News and frequently http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2007/mrcfoxtv.html">sends its people to appear on the channel to talk down the "liberal media". I've seen many instances where MRC pimps other conservatives' commentaries from FNC on its newsletter.

- Brent Bozell http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2004/col20040721.asp">bashed the documentary film Outfoxed in 2004 in a long, rambling column that took jabs at liberals for hating a channel that, in his words, " doesn’t treat conservatism like an infectious disease". Well it seems that Brent is oblivious to the http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/fox_news_channel?tab=research">bottomless pit of blatant misinformation and lack of balance on FNC. (And Bozell himself has spread attacks on and misinformation about the left on FNC's shows)

other than to underscore the outright stupidity of many of the survey respondents.

Fox isn't conservative at all, and cnn sure as hell isn't liberal either.

CNN isn't even close to liberal.

Compared to liberal and progressive thought, um, not so much.

I don't believe any of them are liberal, progressive or moderate, I don't even believe they're truly conservative, they're just corporatist.

And they dropped any pretense of it, the minute TimeWarnerAOL took over.

MSNBC is only "liberal" three hours a day, 5 days a week. Sometimes four hours, when Tweety's reasonable personality shows up. And even those hours often feature guest appearances by Pat Buchanan, Ron "Crosseyed Mary" Christie, and other deulsional right wing tools.

This is about people's perceptions. Not about anything concrete. I mean if 11 percent think MSNBC is conservative and 14 percent think fox is liberal this proves that some of the people they asked are idiots.

At least that is my personal perception.

The most realistic grade I would give them if only two choices were given, would be 65% Conservative and 35%* Liberal.

*And that is including those who claim to be liberal on there, but are really Republican Lite.

I see several people saying "CNN is not liberal!"

Conservatives constantly complain that CNN has a left-wing tilt in its reporting. I think that's what makes people think CNN=liberal. In this case we're the minority as there are 3x many people in America who believe in the CNN=liberal meme.

Well if that's the case what about that birther/anti-immigrant nuthead Lou Dobbs? And I remember that I used to see CNN pop up on a regular basis on the Media Matters RSS feed.

Media Matters and FAIR have documented many, many instances over the years when CNN has kissed up to the right. For example:
- In 2001, CNN's new chairman Walter Isaacson met with Republican members of Congress to improve relations between the network and party.
- This year, CNN chief medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has criticized the single-payer system in her reporting.
- A "Fact Check" segment on the network about Michael Moore's Sicko documentary was embarassingly fact-free.
For more examples of conservative bias in CNN, see the archives at Media Matters and FAIR.

Oh yeah, Ted Turner's a Republican, isn't he?

...that the results might make more sense. Unfortunately, people with acorns for brains were asked a question and they gave the "appropriate" response.