On 4/27/2015 1:47 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:38:09 -0600, "W. Lohman" <
wl...@yaho.om> wrote:
>
>> If they do it'll be another victory for our lame-stream left wing media
>> who basically control the sheeple monolithically.
>
> How many media markets are even faintly progressive?
Nationally?
Just about everything save for Fox.
> Turn on the
> radio and all you hear is right wing I Heart Radio blathering on every
> station. Clear Channel (a Romney corporation) owns the airwaves.
Do you really think AM talk radio is the full spectrum of media?
Please.
Pew does study media bias, and their results are unambiguous.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1919999
A recent study by the Pew Center for the Public and the Press looked at
the state of journalism, journalists and journalistic attitudes.
Details of the study can be found at the Pew Web site (See link in Web
Resources below). It surveyed 547 journalists in broadcasting and print.
It also looks at attitudes comparing journalists who work in local
newsrooms and those who work for national media. The survey replicated a
similar study done in 1995.
More Pessimistic
Overall, the poll shows that journalists are more pessimistic than ever
about the state of the profession. Their confidence in their management
is low and their fears are high about the commercial pressures on
journalism.
This is a study that is bound to have some serious consequences for
American journalism in large measure because of one aspect of the poll:
the political leanings of the journalists who responded to the survey.
Confirmation for Conservatives
It found that a majority of American journalists say they are liberals.
Not surprisingly this has been grist for conservatives because it
confirms the impression that journalists are overwhelmingly liberal
compared to the public in general.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/211238/economics-media-bias-ridhancock
A new poll from the Pew Research Center has again raised the issue of
liberal bias in the media. A growing body of academic research at top
universities supports it. Unfortunately, those in the major media still
don’t get it and are unlikely to change their behavior, resulting in
further declines in ratings and circulation.
An interesting study in this regard was recently done by Tim Groseclose
of UCLA and Jeff Milyo of the University of Chicago. They devised a
method of measuring press bias based on the way members of Congress cite
various think tanks. By looking at their rating on a
liberal/conservative scale based on votes, they were able to determine
which think tanks were viewed as conservative or liberal. They then
looked at how often these think tanks were cited in the media. The
conclusion of the Groseclose-Milyo study is unambiguous. “Our results
show a very significant liberal bias,” they report. Interestingly, they
found that the Internet’s Drudge Report and “Special Report” on Fox News
were the two outlets closest to the true center of the political
spectrum, despite being widely viewed as conservative. Groseclose and
Milyo also look at the political orientation of journalists relative to
the population. They note that just 7 percent of journalists voted for
George H.W. Bush in 1992 versus 37 of the voting public. This means that
journalists are more liberal than voters in the most liberal
congressional district in the U.S., the 9th district in California,
which contains the city of Berkeley. Even there, Bush got 12 percent of
the vote, almost twice his support among journalists.
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/211238/economics-media-bias-ridhancock