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Topic: Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist  (Read 722 times)
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« on: December 19, 2005, 12:09:38 AM »
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Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist


Date: December 14, 2005
Contact: Meg Sullivan ( msullivan@support.ucla.edu )
Phone: 310-825-1046



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.

The results appear in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which will become available in mid-December.

http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664

Does anyone have access to the Quarterly Journal of Economics? If so, would you mind posting this article?
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Actually, here is the on-line journal.

Forthcoming In VOL. 120, ISSUE 4 - NOVEMBER 2005

A Measure of Media Bias
Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/defau...p?ttype=4&tid=8
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It hasn't been added to their website yet, but I did find a link to the paper and in PDF format.

Some of what they're saying does fit with what I know to be true, so after reading, I came across this:

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Before  proceeding, it is useful to clarify our definition of bias.  Most important, the definition has nothing to do with the honesty or accuracy of the news outlet.  Instead, our notion is more like a taste or preference.  For instance, we estimate that the centrist U.S. voter during the late 1990s had a left-right ideology approximately equal to that of Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) or Sam Nunn (D-Ga.).  Meanwhile, we estimate that the average New York Times article is ideologically very similar to the average speech by Joe Lieberman (D-Ct.).  Next, since vote scores show Lieberman to be more liberal than Specter or Nunn, our method concludes that the New York Times has a liberal bias.



Here are their results, mapped out:
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO EXPAND IT TO NORMAL SIZE
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Uh, I kind of doubt this study.  The Washington Times is more to the Right than that, and the Wall Street Journal is not "typically Democratic."  And the NYT, the same as Liebermann?  What NYT are they reading?
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Uh, I kind of doubt this study. [...] And the NYT, the same as Liebermann?  What NYT are they reading?
Exactly. Again, "we estimate that the average New York Times article is ideologically very similar to the average speech by Joe Lieberman (D-Ct.)."
 
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