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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: ...Fox News Exhibited a Kerry Bias in 2004 Election |
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While the following item is quite remarkable and revelatory in exploding a cherished leftist meme inre Fox News, I'm more intrigued by the suggestion that some serious "Journalistic" (capital "J") looks at the factual realities of campaign '04 may have commenced in earnest.
That Kerry and his house of cards, with few exceptions (see Michael Dobbs), was protected and defended
by mass media appears incontrovertible to even the most superficial inspection. With Kerry's political "Peter Principle" apparently having been reached, he's becoming yesterday's news and will become increasingly vulnerable to any serious historical inquiries...
| Quote: | New Research Finds Fox News Exhibited a Kerry Bias in 2004 Election
Michael Sineath
January 26, 2009
A study that was just published in the scholarly journal Mass Communication and Society, which is edited at Illinois State University, suggests that structural bias was apparent on many of the major television networks during the 2004 presidential election in a direction that may surprise many.
Frederick Fico, professor of journalism at Michigan State University, and his co-authors of the article Broadcast and Cable Network News Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election, compare news coverage of Presidential candidates John Kerry and George Bush on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. They find that Fox News showed more structural bias toward Democratic candidate John Kerry than any other network, and that its bias was stronger than that on other networks. This was true contrary to criticism cited by Fico in which former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite labels Fox News as a “far-rightwing organization.”
That means Kerry and his supporters received more air time on Fox and were more likely to receive primary placement in stories. The four determinants of structural bias were the number of supporters quoted or given a chance to speak, the candidate whose supporters spoke first, the time they spent speaking, and whether there were visuals of both candidates or only of one. Neither the tone of the quotes used nor talk and commentary were analyzed, but only packaged news stories and segments.
Bush, on the other hand, received favorable coverage from NBC and MSNBC.
CBS, which broke the story questioning Bush’s National Guard service attributed to a source that was later discredited, favored Kerry.
CNN’s structural bias leaned somewhat toward Kerry, while ABC’s bias is less clear, leaning toward Bush in some measures and Kerry in others.
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The study examined stories aired from Labor Day to the November 2 Election Day of 2004. Both the National Guard stories and coverage of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against John Kerry were in the media during the period of analysis.
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Stevie
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of course Fox had more 'coverage' of Kerry - they had John O on more than the msm did! lol!
and anyone think the msm would cover it much? they wanted the vets to just go away...
Fox did let the Kerry deferments slide tho. Someone shut them up on it. ED Hill started to bring that up on F and F's one morning... they went to instant break...and when the show came back, they were on to another subject. surprise, surprise!
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I kept saying all during that campaign that Fox got credit for being neutral when actually, they were merely less obvious in their bias toward Kerry.
Fox wasn't outwardly in the tank for Kerry, but - like ALL the other mainstream media - they missed an awful lot of opportunities to get to the truth of a matter.
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