Crap! C-Span Just Quoted the "Media Bias Is Real" (Left Wing Bias!) Report

[leftchick]

I swear c-span is really almost unwatchable these days. Drudge Leans Left????? :banghead:
I need to know who the woman who wrote this is.....

Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist


Date: December 14, 2005
Contact: Meg Sullivan ( [e-mail] )
Phone: [phone]



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.

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."

"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.

The results appear in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which will become available in mid-December.

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

[mmonk]

1. up is down

[tecelote]

2. Everything is Liberal to a Neo-Con.

[Cassandra]

3. Well, it's just that the facts are liberal.

Pesky things.

[Mikimouse]

4. I want to see the methodology!

It would be interesting to see how he arrived at those conclusions.

[mmonk]

5. They polled Limbaugh and Hannity listeners

[Jim__]

6. Here are a couple of links

The original paper: The paper.

and one critique: LeftCoaster. There are a number of other critiques out there.