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Challenging the claim of media bias


Posted: Oct 1, 2012

Author raises intelligent points regarding claims of liberal bias in the media.

(Preview: "Many Republicans see bias lurking in every live shot, but the growing hegemony of conservative voices makes manufacturing a partisan conspiracy a practical impossibility.")

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Media bias - standard M.O.

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"Kevin Hassett at the American Enterprise Institute and I recently studied newspaper headlines from 1985 to 2004. We looked at the percentage of newspaper headlines that were positive when new economic numbers were released. For example, after accounting for the unemployment rate and new jobs and whether those numbers were increasing or decreasing, we looked at the percentage of newspaper headlines for those stories that could be classified as positive, negative, neutral or mixed.

"Here's what we found: For the top 10 largest newspaper, for the same types of unemployment news, the headlines were 15 to 16 percent more positive when a Democrat was president.

"Today, it appears that the mainstream press is particularly eager to support President Obama. They are bending over backwards to spin the economic numbers in a positive way.

"In September and August the Wall Street Journal and New York Times for gave Mr. Obama slightly more positive headlines than Bill Clinton would have received with the same economic news.

"President Obama also got over 20 percent more positive headlines than our data indicated that similarly situated Republicans would have gotten. This more positive coverage has a real impact on people’s perceptions of the economy. More positive headlines raised people’s perceptions that the economy was getting better. The average difference in positive headlines between Democrats and Republicans produced about a four-percentage point increase in respondents viewing the economy as getting better."

--John Lott

so maybe you didn't read the article... - sm

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for if you had, the facts and figures for the present day might have peaked your interest.

The quote you present discusses media data from 1985 to 2004: hardly an apples-to-apples comparison when you consider all the years that precede the advent of the world wide web, the associated surge in alterative web-based news sources, and the fact that 1985 predates Fox news by at least 11 years.

Sounds like an objective study - dds

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and it coincides with my personal experience over the years. Incredibly, the media either don't care or thinks Americans can't see the bias.

there is nothing objective about two guys going over headlines - nm

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