Where's that liberal bias?
It's a well-known fact, constantly reiterated by right-wingers, that the traditional media (newspapers, magazines, network television) in this country are strongly pro-liberal. Except that, like so many other well-known facts parroted by the right-wingers, this, too, is a lie. Now, someone has actually quantified exactly how false it is. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has just released a study delineating the media's coverage of the Republican candidates for president versus coverage of President Obama over the last five months. Can you guess which one received the most negative coverage? It turns out that Obama has received the most consistently negative press of any of the presidential candidates, with negative assessments outweighing positive ones by almost four to one. Again, this is not Rush Limbaugh we are talking about here. This is the New York Times , Washington Post , CBS News, etc. Pew found that only 9 percent of the ...