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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonkie who wrote (27379)	6/1/2004 2:51:18 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

FOX is a new network that has only been around about 12 years. Before that it was all network news and everything this article complains about Murdoch was true of the networks prior to Cable TV. Now people have some choice besides watching Network Newscasts.

To: zonkie who wrote (27379)	6/1/2004 3:29:11 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

You're living in a liberal fantasyland. Here's proof positive from the horse's mouth(not John Kerry) that there is a strong left-leaning bias in national media. Excerpt from Sunday's CNN "Reliable Sources" weekly program: >>KURTZ: You out there, yes, you know who you are, the ones always complaining about the liberal media. The ones who think that mainstream news organizations are filled with lefties. Well, there's a new survey out that shows you may have a point. The study, by Andrew Kohut's Pew Research Center and Tom Rosenstiel's Project for Excellence in Journalism says that 34 percent of journalists at national news outlets describe themselves as liberal; 54 percent as moderate and just 7 percent as conservative. The numbers were less lopsided in local newsrooms. But still, twice as many liberals as conservatives. But journalists, of course, are trained to keep their opinions out of their work. Except that nearly half of those in national newsrooms say ideology does color the reporting. Which leads me to the most eye-catching finding: 55 percent of the national journalists and 37 percent of the local ones say the press has been too soft on President Bush. Too soft in the midst of all this Iraq coverage? And yes, more of the liberal media people hold that view. If the upbeat coverage of gay marriage in Massachusetts led you to believe that journalists are to the left of the public on social issues, you're right. Eighty-eight percent of national journalists say society should accept homosexuality. Only about half the public agrees. Who do the journalists think is biased? Asked to name an especially conservative news outlet, 69 percent of the national journalists picked Fox News Channel. As for an especially liberal organization, 20 percent named "The New York Times." Only 2 percent chose CNN. Media bias remains a complicated subject, but those who are convinced of that bias just got a whole new round of ammunition. Well, that's it for this edition of RELIABLE SOURCES. I'm Howard Kurtz. Join us again next Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern. "LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER" begins right now. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com<<