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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8502)3/14/2005 1:40:54 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
MSM Election Coverage: Incredibly Biased

Little Green Footballs

It must have been really bad, if even the Columbia School of Journalism is forced to admit it:

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Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. media coverage of last year’s election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry, according to a study released Monday.

The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.

Only 20 percent were positive toward Bush compared to 30 percent of stories about Kerry that were positive, according to the report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

story.news.yahoo.com
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Pretty stunning figures. (And I’m not talking about the Seven Windows ad.)

But the LA Times focuses on another section of the report:

Study Warns of Junk-News Diet.

The Columbia School of Journalism has released a steady stream of anti-blog stories, and this conclusion is simply part of their bias. Get a load of how the report describes the fact-checking mechanism of blogs:

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Rather than taking the time to gather and scrutinize each piece of information — the model for the mainstream media — the report said some bloggers hewed to another philosophy: “Publish anything, especially points of view, and the reporting and verification will occur afterward in the response of fellow bloggers.”
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That’s absolute nonsense, at least as far as LGF is concerned. Before any possibly controversial stories are posted here, the facts are carefully checked. The responses from fellow bloggers and readers serve to catch those instances when the first line of fact-checking misses something, or is mistaken.

The idea that blogs “publish anything” without regard for factual truth is a smear, pure and simple, coming from an organization that feels threatened by something it can’t understand.

littlegreenfootballs.com
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