Liberal Bias

[sleigh]

A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University looked at the network news (ABC, NBC, and CBS) and their coverage of the two candidates, beginning after Hillary's concession and continuing to last Monday.

Is there a liberal bias to the media? Not according to this study. Their findings were that the network news said negative things about Obama 72% of the time. In contrast, negative comments were made about McCain only 57% of the time.

It would appear there's a bias against liberals. Not a liberal bias.

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[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I can't, since I don't know anyone in any sociology department in any university. (And why Sociology, Scott?) I can tell you that administratively, NKU is very conservative with lots of ties to the Republican party -- they had the then-(Republication)-governor's wife speak at commencement last year, and this year the commencement speaker was an ambassador in the Bush administration, and W himself was invited to speak (and did so) at the university on his last visit. But the Sociology department? [shrug] Dunno.