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Bong Lover on 15 May 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
Bong Lover said:

If you care to look outside the liberal media bias echo chamber you can easily find many studies that shows no real bias, slight conservative bias or slight liberal bias. As one would imagine, when looking at metastudies, the various bias outlets balance each other out and there is virtually no net bias in overall media. This is not to say that there are not liberal leaning and conservative leaning news outlets, but the notion that there is a clear liberal slant in media as a whole is not supported by facts.

Since you obviously will ask again. Here's one exapmple of a study of coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign and who got more positive and negative mention in the news media:

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/cr

So, no one had less favorable coverage than Obama, does that mean the media has a conservative bias? No, it only shows that in 2012 Obama got a lot of negative coverage. In reality, media has a much stronger finacial bias than political bias, they will report to fit the 'general mood' of their consumers.

And more bullshit.

Did you even read your own source? It does nothing to support your claim. It addresses a very confined event, the republican primary. To form a fair assessment, you would have to include the democratic primary in such a study to address both ends of the spectrum. This is logic 101.

Start reading:

http://scholar.harvard.edu/barro/files/04_0614_liberalmedia_bw.pdf

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/media-bias-is-real-finds-ucla-6664.aspx

And here is Jake Tapper admitting the liberal bias:

http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/jake-tapper-media-helped-tip-the-scales-towards-obama-in-2008/

Devotion to inanity much? I mean learn to read some actual studies, not ones that don't address your point at all.

 

Indeed, there is an UCLA report that shows liberal bias, but the point is, there are many others that show no bias or conservative bias. The UCLA research was conducted by a conservative professor and the metric is set up against a supposed center of the American public and rated against that. The study only covers about 20 different news shows, the researcher admited to go in expectign to find liberal bias and found it. In short, there's no way that research paper can be held as the be all and end all of the discussion. Great, there are many opther reports that show the opposite. Here is another collection of stats from the same election:

http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnfull/20120807/CG52261-INFO

What does this prove? Nothing, but we can go on forever exchanging links to studies and reports. The most interesting report on this is a metastudy report that studies the findings in a wide number of reports and concluded that it's impossible to show bias either way. The various outlets cancel eachother out and any bias is negleble to none. Unfortunately I can not find a link to the research paper online.

So where does the idea of liberal bias come from? It's a stated strategy by the Republican party to aggressivly attack the media to try to sway coverage slightly in their favor. At least that is what some quotes are taken to mean. Again, facts show us that more republicans find the news media to be bias than democrats. The myth of a liberal media bias is self sustaining as people want to believe it's true so they look for evidence that supports it and rejects evidence to the contrary. You show an excellent example of it in your post where you vehemently reject the link I posted, and put much more weight on the link that you posted that supports what you want to be true.