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In reply to the discussion: Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)TV and the U.S. news media are notorious for telling one side, since November 22, 1963.
To gauge this for a class in grad school I briefly attended, I conducted a content analysis examining bias in The New York Times' coverage of the 30th anniversary of the assassination.
We examined every article o the assassination the "paper of record" published months of October and November, 1993. The three Coders were asked to read and gauge each article and state if they found each article pro-conspiracy (support HSCA), pro-lone gunman (support Warren Commission), or neutral (neither or both positions).
The results found fully three-fourths of the paper's space was devoted to the subject went to Gerald Posner's "Case Closed," a book of shoddy scholarship that supported the Warren Commission. A higher percentage was in support of the Warren Commission.
It would be interesting to conduct a similar study this year -- extended to broadcast, print and popular web sites.
PS: Thanks for standing up in this fight. Geesh. More than 10 years now on DU. How fast the time flies and how long Their lies last.