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To: xm177e2
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 :-)

9 posted on 03/21/2002 7:59:41 PM PST by Drango
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To: Drango
Yes, but he was only looking at the words "liberal" and "conservative," he was ignoring "right-" and "left-wing," which are far more pernicious labels.
11 posted on 03/21/2002 8:03:13 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: Drango
And he also looks at organizations, I know that conservative organizations are smeared with a label (at least in the NYT national desk news pages) far more often, because that's the other research I did.

In fact, it was because of his research that I decided to post this (I saw something about it over at the "morethanzero" Blog...

13 posted on 03/21/2002 8:05:48 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: 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.

ROFLMAO! NPR looking at Liberal Media bias ... and they are completely lost trying to figure out what it is! They have no idea! :-)

15 posted on 03/21/2002 8:07:01 PM PST by WOSG
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