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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (71669)	8/5/2003 1:26:11 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

wow fascinating stuff

To: Lane3 who wrote (71669)	8/5/2003 4:14:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

A new Harvard study says the conservative editorial pages are more intensely partisan, and far less willing to criticize a Republican administration than the liberal pages are to take on a Democratic administration. Not surprising. Since the majority of big papers are liberal those that are conservative may take on more of a conservative identity. The liberal papers claim to be non-partisan, a lot of the conservative papers will either claim to be conservative or if not actually proclaiming it will make no effort to hide it. The press overall leans to the left (at least the big papers do) even if publications like the Washington Times lean to the right. But the Washington Times is smaller then either the Washington Post or the New York Times. I imagine it is quite possible to find a paper as liberal as the time is conservative, so its possible that there is some bias in the study based on its selection of papers. In any case even if the study is 100% true it doesn't really answer the charge that the press leans to the left. Tim