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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (6277)	3/20/2006 12:19:01 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Far left "What common sense has comprehended for decades now finds support by yet another scholarly study: The media has a leftist bias. Jeffrey Milyo, an economist from the University of Missouri, and Tim Groseclose, a political scientist at UCLA ... published their results in the November 2005 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. ... "Milyo and Groseclose conducted a 10-year study. ... "The results? The researchers expected to find a left-leaning bias, but were astonished at just how behemoth this left-wing bias is. All the major news outlets (except Fox News' 'Special Report' and the Washington Times) scored far to the left of the average member of Congress. ... "This study, with its unique approach, supplements other recent findings. Elaine Povich ... found that only 7 percent of all Washington correspondents voted for George H.W. Bush [in 1992]. More recently, John Tierney ... reported that only 8 percent of New York Times Washington correspondents thought George W. Bush would be a better president than John Kerry. As pointed out by Milyo and Groseclose, these studies further demonstrate that Washington correspondents are more leftist than any congressional district in the country." -- Matthew A. Roberts, writing on "The Decline of Mainstream Media," Thursday in Front Page at www.frontpagemag.com