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Measure of Media Bias: Drudge Report, Fox News Special Report the "most centrist"
Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University ^ | Sept, 2003 | Tim Groseclose

Posted on 06/24/2004 8:27:40 AM PDT by NateLannister

"Our results show a very significant liberal bias. All of the news outlets except Fox News’ Special Report received a score to the left of the average member of Congress. Moreover, by one of our measures all but three of these media outlets (Special Report, the Drudge Report, and ABC’s World News Tonight) were closer to the average Democrat in Congress than to the median member of the House of Representatives. One of our measures found that the Drudge Report is the most centrist of all media outlets in our sample. Our other measure found that Fox News’ Special Report is the most centrist. These findings refer strictly to the news stories of the outlets. That is, we omitted editorials, book reviews, and letters to the editor from our sample."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbrss.harvard.edu ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; media; mediots; news
I'm sure someone else has already put this up, but I wanted to get it out there again. Drudge had it up on his page, of course, and The Annotated Media had it too, but no one else seemed to picked it up (shocking!).
1 posted on 06/24/2004 8:27:41 AM PDT by NateLannister
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Harvard? Can't be, how did this get by the "establishment"?
2 posted on 06/24/2004 8:37:09 AM PDT by austinite
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Heard about this on Glenn Beck's show this a.m.


3 posted on 06/24/2004 8:37:29 AM PDT by Millie
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Yes, here were 2, but it's good stuff!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158002/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158928/posts

4 posted on 06/24/2004 8:55:40 AM PDT by pookie18
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Fox's Special Report with Britt Hume is, in my book, the best hour on television.


5 posted on 06/24/2004 8:57:20 AM PDT by trublu
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"Fox's Special Report with Britt Hume is, in my book, the best hour on television."

It's better on Sunday when the lovely Laurie Dhue hosts.


6 posted on 06/24/2004 8:59:12 AM PDT by exile (Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
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I consider Hume's Special Report "must see tv".


7 posted on 06/24/2004 9:01:18 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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Fox's Special Report with Britt Hume is, in my book, the best hour on television.

Amen to that. 'Course it has to be on during the DINNER HOUR! Thank goodness for summer when no one wants to eat and I can push dinner off until 7:00 or later!

8 posted on 06/24/2004 9:01:55 AM PDT by pettifogger
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Anything is better with Dhue.

= P


9 posted on 06/24/2004 9:11:26 AM PDT by Mr. Thorne ("But iron, cold iron, shall be master of them all..." Kipling)
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