Media Bias? What planet are you from?

Prior to the election a comprehensive study by UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose and University of Missouri-Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Milyo found Brit Hume's Special Report — Fox's most straightforward news show — more centrist than any of the three major networks' evening newscasts, all of which are left leaning.

Everyone knows the media isn't biased. And if it was, it would be biased toward
the right, right?

President-elect Barack Obama received 68% positive
evaluations on the network evening news shows during
the general election. His treatment was twice as
favorable as John McCain's 33% positive and Sarah
Palin's 34% positive evaluations.

Whoa, whoa, what does that prove? Maybe Obama just had more things
that were positive about him and his campaign than those other two.

Obama's 68% positive press is the strongest showing
CMPA has ever recorded for a presidential candidate,
since we began monitoring election news in 1988.
He easily eclipsed previous leader John Kerry's 59%
positive evaluations on network news in 2004.
Conversely, McCain's tally of 33% positive
evaluations was the worst showing since George
H.W. Bush received only 29% positive press in 1988.

Averaged across the all elections since 1988, broadcast
network coverage of the six Democratic presidential
nominees has been evenly balanced - 50% positive vs.
50% negative press. The average coverage of the six
Republican candidates has been 34% positive vs. 66%
negative, a margin of 2 to 1 negative.

I forgpt who it was, but the person who called the over-
the-top positive coverage for Obama in this election
"embarrassing" had a pretty valid point. You can also
understand why some experts believe coverage like
Obama got is worth about 5% at the polls.

Objective Journalism - 2008. RIP

Advocacy Journalism - alive, well and left-leaning.

We should understand, accept and learn to live with it
because it isn't going to change. Just don't let the media
get away with the "unbiased" nonsense anymore and
weigh everything they say or report very carefully
against the facts you're able to dig up independently -
because that's the only way you're going to get
anywhere near the truth.
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