[xm177e2]

Part One of Two...

Obviously, it's impossible to mathematically "prove" something as ethereal as "media bias," but I'm giving it my best shot. I forget if I posted this before, I honestly don't remember.

[xm177e2]

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[fhayek]

Great job XM!

[xm177e2]

Also see Patrick Ruffini's article here, from 3/1/02. His views on the media are basically the same as mine... (his methodology is also similar, although he doesn't go as far as I did (but he searched more than just the NYT), I'm not accusing him of copying off me or anything, because I don't think I've ever posted this before)

[Enlightiator]

Excellent work, very good proof of liberal bias at the NYT. This ought to be read by everyone at FR and cited by conservative columnists!

[Pokey78]

Bravo!

[WOSG]

great research!!!!!!

Send this to Brent Bozell!! Publishable material!!!

[Drango]

Yesterday or the day before on NPR, Terry Gross's show, some dude from Stanford did a similar study with 20-30 newspapers from around the US.

His conclusion was, contrary to Goldberg's view, liberals were 2-3 times more likely to have "labels" associated with thier names! I'll see if I can find it on-line and post the link. You and Terry and the Stanford Geek can duke it out :-)

[WOSG]

btw, it is great to do this stuff on NYT, they are masters at using adjectives for everything. it defines their world-view .

try " Republican ... mean-spirited " versus "Democrat ... mean-spirited" and also other 'harsh' adjectives close to Repub or Dem ("extremist" or "harsh" or "hard-line" or "controlled" or "regime" or "forced" or "threatened").

on the "threatened" for example, i have notice the NYT/LibPress would say "Clinton promises veto" but would say "Bush threatens veto". So you may get: "Extremist Republicans, taking a hard line, threatened to overturn LovelyDemPres promised veto."

[xm177e2]

I should acknowledge I'm not the first person to think this up, I read in Harry Stein's book "How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace)" about a few searches he did with LEXIS-NEXIS, so I decided to try my hand at it...

[Graewoulf]

Thank you sir! It is high-time to note that "the media" does not use left-wing and extreme to describe itself, but we all know that is exactly what they are!

[LarryLied]

Good work! Thanks. Wonder how many times "activist" shows up. That is the usual New York Times term for left wing terrorist bombers such as Lori Berenson.