Butch
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Joined: 26 May 2004
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Location: Sterling Hgts., Michigan
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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject: Media Bias Proven. |
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Interesting article on media bias as it relates to economic news.
http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.21338,filter.all/news_detail.asp
| Quote: | Actual economic data explains much about the headlines--but far from everything. We found that the incidence of positive coverage during Republican presidencies was fairly steady--but economic news under President Clinton received by far the most positive coverage. This partisan gap or bias (the difference in positive headlines between Republicans and Democrats for the same underlying economic news) consistently implied that Democrats got between 10 and 20 percentage points more positive headlines.
We also examined individual newspapers. Among the top 10 papers, we found strong evidence that the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Washington Post were much more likely to have positive headlines for Democrats even with the same economic news. The New York Post showed no statistically significant difference. The Los Angeles Times did not tend to treat Republicans and Democrats significantly differently.
Even including the Los Angeles Times, Ronald Reagan, a president who presided over one of the most vigorous economies in our history, still received seven percent fewer positive news stories than Clinton after accounting for the different economic conditions.
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Of course we already knew this especially from the MSM.
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