Study: Media Elite's Campaign News More Biased than Talk Radio |
| Published: October 30, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, media bias debate, barack obama, hillary clinton, john edwards, john mccain, rush limbaugh, sean hannity, abc, cbs, cnn, fox news channel, msnbc, nbc, new york times, npr, pbs |
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According to a new study, those news organizations that hold themselves up as the most neutral and professional big newspapers, the broadcast networks and taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio are actually producing campaign stories that are the most tilted in favor of Democrats, while online news and talk radio have actually been the most balanced. The study, released Monday from the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and Harvard's Shorenstein Center, found newspapers and broadcast TV outlets devoted far more time to covering the Democratic candidates than the Republicans and that the tone of those stories was much more favorable to the Democrats, mirroring the results of a Media Research Center study released in August. The PEJ study looked at a wide array of media broadcast and cable TV, liberal and conservative talk radio, public radio, newspapers and the Internet but in most cases used sampling techniques to keep the number of stories to a manageable [ Full article ] |
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