WTF? The same Dan Rather who said there was too much Reagan coverage is now out pimping Clinton's book and this is just the first wave of a full frontal assault by Viacom/CBS.
Bama how can you stand to live in a country with a justice system so flawed that the most corrupt adminstration in history (Clinton) gets away with 0 convictions and the greatest administration of the 20th century (Reagan) has 32 felony convictions.
Yes, the same Dan Rather that....I didn't even mention once. Stop frothing and go back to freerepublic.
I have never once read their website. Stop being a pathological liar and accusing me of doing things I don't do.
Well, how 'bout them apples? http://patterico.com/ June 20, 2004 Shocking News: Objective Study on Media Bias Shows Media is Leftist Often, when I discuss media bias, leftists tell me that my observations result from a "selection bias" -- in other words, I see liberal media bias because I am a conservative, just as a liberal would supposedly see conservative media bias. My usual response is that leftist accusations of conservative media bias are scant and unconvincing. For example, nobody has ever answered my challenge to find examples of pro-conservative bias on abortion, gun control, race issues, religion, criminal justice, homosexual rights, or similar culture-war issues in the New York Times, Washington Post, or the Los Angeles Times. Eric Alterman couldn't come up with such examples in an entire book devoted to debunking the notion of the liberal media. But my liberal friends are undaunted. They tell me that the only thing that would really prove media bias is a careful study that objectively analyzes the mainstream media for a liberal or conservative slant. Well, guess what? I am just today learning about such a study, by two professors from respected schools, which finds a significant liberal bias in the mainstream media. Here are the details: One of the researchers is Tim Groseclose of the Department of Political Science at UCLA as well as the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. The other researcher is Jeff Milyo of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. The study was published in September 2003, but is just now getting some publicity in a recent article in BusinessWeek magazine. The article describes the researchers' methodology this way: These researchers set up an objective measure of bias in U.S. television networks, newspapers, and magazines. The main finding is that the liberal inclination is pronounced. Although Fox News emerges as conservative, it is not nearly as far to the right as many outlets are to the left. Groseclose and Milyo began with the well-known ratings of the voting records of U.S. senators and representatives by Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a self-described liberal lobbying group. . . . [T]he median member of the U.S. House had an ADA score of 39. Thus, 39 is a reasonable measure of a centrist position. THE NEXT STEP MEASURED the tendency of Senate and House members in their speeches to [favorably] cite 200 prominent think tanks. . . . The last step measured the tendency of various media outlets to [favorably] cite the same 200 think tanks [in news stories]. . . . The researchers used this information to calculate a right- vs. left-wing indicator for each media outlet -- effectively, an ADA rating. The assumption is that media outlets that refer favorably to conservative think tanks are reasonably characterized as conservative, whereas those that refer positively to liberal think tanks are plausibly labeled as liberal. The final product (in a preliminary table provided by the authors) was a list of computed ADA ratings for the media outlets. On the conservative end, Fox News Special Report came out with a rating of 27; that is, 12 points more conservative than the 39 of the median member of the House. The only other right-of-center outlet was The Washington Times, at 34. On the liberal end, Newsweek had an astonishing rating of 72 -- that's 33 points more liberal than the House median. Other highly liberal outlets included The New York Times, Time magazine, the CBS Evening News, USA Today, and NBC Nightly News. These scores ranged from 62 to 64, about 25 points above the House median. For viewers seeking truly "fair and balanced" reporting, the best outlets were ABC Good Morning America and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The ADA scores for these programs were 39 and 41, respectively. Places moderately left of center were CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown (49), The Washington Post (53), NPR's Morning Edition (55) and ABC WorldNews Tonight (55). . . . . Bottom line: The Groseclose-Milyo study shows the media are skewed substantially to the left of the typical member of Congress. Thus, if the opinions of viewers and readers are similar to those of their representatives, the media slant is far to the left of that of most of their customers. By the way, my favorite newspaper (the Los Angeles Times) received a score of 58.4 -- far to the left of the median of 39. Leftists, who have blinded themselves to media bias for years, will no doubt find all sorts of ridiculous reasons to discount this study. But it is an interesting analysis -- even if its conclusion is utterly predictable. Full study is here: http://www.yale.edu/isps/seminars/american_pol/groseclose.pdf
Gwiener dog: I guess I push your buttons, apparently; though I have no idea how or why. Keep up the blog pasting though, must be tough work.
Well then, I guess we'll never see any of your posts again since you seem to only post in reply to me, sort of stalking me in a way. What ever will we do without your blog pasting skillz?
