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Kirata -> RE: Top 10 Fox News FAILS of 2009 (12/19/2009 7:19:58 PM)
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This is from 2004, but the findings were a surprise...
While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.
Bias is often a matter of what you consider to be bias. Where one man sees bias, another sees truth. But bias can be virtually invisible, because its methods are many and subtle.
Bias through selection and omission
Bias through placement
Bias by headline
Bias by photos, captions and camera angles
Bias through use of names and titles
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
Bias by source control
Bias by word choice and tone
The last evaluation I saw (though I can't find the link) found CNN to be the most center of the road outlet. That was a surprise, but maybe it just shows how far out some of the others have become.
K.
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