| dsgrue3 said: I'm just posting what it says. I even used that study to further my point about liberal bias.
I mean this is a huge difference between arguably the most polarized bias in the media. It shows devotion on both sides to discredit the candidate with opposing views, but also shows more of a devotion from the left - a staggering 25% more hate on articles with tone. There is an overwhelming majority of democrats in journalism, so it only makes sense that this is the case with most of the mainstream media. I believe the number was close to 80%.
And here we see that MSNBC doesn't care to post factual stories and is fine posting incessant op-ed pieces, which essentially confirms a bias, whereas Fox actually deals with a near even split, along with CNN. All I see is constant ammunition for me to make the objective statement that there is left-lean to most media outlets and thus there is a left-lean as a whole. You did mention there are studies that find a right bias in the media. I'd be extremely interested in which studies those are to appropriately assess the findings as not a single person has posted any such study yet.
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I don't think anybody is going to argue that MSNBC is unbiased, so extrapolating from one media outlet to the media market in general is erroneous. I personally don't watch either network, so I don't really know how much each network focuses on news vs. editorial style coverage . I mean.......this is the chart you should be posting, which does much less to support your point (and is from the same study), especially given how campaign coverage changed over the course of the election season. I don't think anyone is going to disagree that there are partisan news sources, especially when you look at the huge amount of sources available today....the question is whether there is systematic bias.
I don't know if you have access to the articles, but here are the citations:
Aday S. 2010. Chasing the bad news: an analysis of 2005 Iraq and Afghanistan war coverage on NBC and Fox News Channel. J. Commun. 60:144–64.
Banning S, Coleman R. 2009. Louder than words: a content analysis of presidential candidates’ televised nonverbal communication. Visual Commun. Q. 16:4–17.
Grabe ME, Bucy EP. 2009. Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press.
The first article is just about more positive coverage of the war, which would have benefitted the Republicans. The other two are more explicitly about bias. There were a couple other citations, but they seemed questionable. Just to be clear, I'm pretty much agnostic on this question. I honestly think the research on this question needs a lot of work.
