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To: LindyBill who wrote (81453)	10/28/2004 1:57:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

The NYT 's Politics: Here's the abstract to an intersting statistical study by VOLOKH - Riccardo Puglisi of the London School of Ecnomics analyzing New York Times issue coverage from 1946-1994. papers.ssrn.com I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1994. Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health care, labour and social welfare), when the incumbent president is a Republican. This is consistent with the hypothesis that the New York Times has a Democratic partisanship, with some watchdog aspects, in that it gives more emphasis to issues over which the (Republican) incumbent is weak. Moreover, out of the presidential campaign, there are more stories about Democratic topics when the incumbent president is a Democrat.