Another pebble falls from the facade...
plonkIn a new paper, Kevin A. Hassett and John R. Lott Jr., economists at the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative research organization in Washington, say they have discovered that economic reporters commit the same archetypal sin: slanting the news unequivocally in favor of the Democrats. ...the Republicans received 20 to 30 percent fewer positive headlines, on average, for the same type of news, they concluded. ...The Associated Press were even more skewed.... this group gave Republican administrations 20 to 40 percent fewer positive headlines ..."We have not constructed tests that identify a motive for the bias," Mr. Hassett said. "A desire to aid the political fortunes of Democrats could explain the patterns we see in the data."
The AEI is a neo-con nutjob institute funded entirely by conservative donors.
Its so-called ‘fellows’ include Michael ‘Il Capo’ Ledeen, and that well-known purveyor of erotic lesbian fiction, Lynne Cheney.
Ledeen’s daughter, Simone, even got her daddy to pull some strings and get her a job with the CPA in Iraq… where she proceeded to royally fuck up the Iraqi economy. This was hardly a surprising outcome given that she had absolutely zero prior experience of any relevance.
For you to claim that this rag-tag collection of rightist loons has ‘proved’ anything about media bias is beyond laughable.
But I forgive you, given that your pet goose most likely has a higher IQ than you.
Posted by person with a bigger brain than claire on 09/17/04 at 04:46 PMoooo, “person”—clever!
So you’re telling me that you see *no* bias in the MSM? Or is it just that the “funded by conservatives” part gets in your way of looking at the study?
By that “logic” everything that comes out of MoveOn and any other libby/socialist/Moonbat orgs is equally beyond laughable by virtue of it’s being funded by partisans.
Posted by Claire on 09/18/04 at 06:37 AM
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