Comments | rubinpdf: Mea Culpa

rubinpdf

Mea Culpa

Nov 15, 2008 10:31

You know me... If I'm wrong about something, I'll come out and say so. In the past, I've claimed the media in general is biased to the left, and been a defender of FOX News as fair and balanced, but a study I've just seen from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism now makes me now doubt that assertion ( Read more... )

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pathia November 15 2008, 16:29:53 UTC

I'm impressed by this study actually, even though I voted for him I was guessing there'd be more of an Obama bias. We don't actually have TV here (We have a TV just...no cable). So all my media comes from the websites of those news divisions and that seemed a little more Obama focused.

Haven't dug into the study itself yet, does this include 'all media' as in...all aspects of the media? Like, CNN's webpage, as opposed to CNN TV?

rubinpdf November 15 2008, 17:09:49 UTC

I believe the "Media Overall" category in the study includes only the broadcast media (NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/MSNBC/FOXNews), since there was a separate section (study) on the print media.

rubinpdf November 15 2008, 17:14:48 UTC

Sorry. Wrong again.
According to the website:
That study found that in the media overall-a sample of 43 outlets studied in the six weeks following the conventions through the last debate...

rbandrews November 15 2008, 17:56:20 UTC

Exactly right. So, the next step is re-evaluating what you learned from Fox News, a source you now know is biased. Perhaps some of the other things you argued, with evidence you learned there, you may have been mistaken about.

rubinpdf November 15 2008, 20:51:29 UTC

I am a big enough man to admit I am wrong. Your statement makes some sense, and I'm sure you'd do the same in the opposite position.

vond November 15 2008, 21:39:17 UTC

Is this all of FOX News (including the pundits) or just the news program? Because I heard an interview on NPR recently with the host of their nightly news show and he seemed very genuinely interested in presenting things as cleanly as possible. I suppose that doesn't preclude cherry-picking the stories on the nightly news show, but I suspect this included the other news shows by the big names on that network, in which case the results don't surprise me at all.

rubinpdf November 16 2008, 00:39:01 UTC

According to the study their methodology included the following:
Daytime ( ... )