"It has been documented that Fox is closer to the center than any of the big five liberal media."
I would be curious to see any link you may have to such documentation....
Goldie and I were looking for stuff like that a few days ago.
(Most of the studies we turned up for 'media bias' were *decades* old...
Some of this supporte my thesis, and some refutes it. It is more current than the other. If you readit, you will note that the measure they use is skewed towards Democrats on some of the stuff that refutes my thesis. Thanks for incenting me to find this.
A Measure of Media Bias (research shows Drudge/Fox centrist, NYT far liberal)
Joint study by faculty at University of Chicago and Stanford University ^ | September 2003 | Tim Groseclose,PhD and Jeffrey Milyo, PhD
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From the report:
"Our results show a very significant liberal bias. All of the news outlets except Fox News? Special Report received a score to the left of the average member of Congress.? Moreover, by one of our measures all but three of these media outlets (Special Report, the Drudge Report, and ABC?s World News Tonight) were closer to the average Democrat in Congress than to the median member of the House of Representatives.? One of our measures found that the Drudge Report is the most centrist of all media outlets in our sample.? Our other measure found that Fox News? Special Report is the most centrist.? These findings refer strictly to the news stories of the outlets.? That is, we omitted editorials, book reviews, and letters to the editor from our sample
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Conclusion:
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Our results contrast strongly with the prior expectations of many others.? It is easy to find quotes from prominent journalists and academics who claim that there is no systematic bias among media outlets in the U.S.? The following are some examples:
?Our greatest accomplishment as a profession is the development since World War II of a news reporting craft that is truly non-partisan, and non-ideological, and that strives to be independent of undue commercial or governmental influence....It is that legacy we must protect with our diligent stewardship. To do so means we must be aware of the energetic effort that is now underway to convince our readers that we are ideologues. It is an exercise of, in disinformation, of alarming proportions. This attempt to convince the audience of the world?s most ideology-free newspapers that they?re being subjected to agenda-driven news reflecting a liberal bias. I don?t believe our viewers and readers will be, in the long-run, misled by those who advocate biased journalism.?
? New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accepting the ?George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award? at a National Press Foundation dinner shown live on C-SPAN2 February 20, 2003.
?when it comes to free publicity, some of the major broadcast media are simply biased in favor of the Republicans, while the rest tend to blur differences between the parties.? But that?s the way it is.? Democrats should complain as loudly about the real conservative bias of the media as the Republicans complain about its entirely mythical bias??
--Paul Krugman, ?Into the Wilderness,? New York Times, November 8, 2002.
"The mainstream media does not have a liberal bias. . . . ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and the rest -- at least try to be fair."?
--Al Franken. ?(2003, xx)? Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.
The main conclusion of our paper is that our results simply reject such claims."
Here is one that purports to prove the opposite about liberal print media.
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