I don’t even have to try anymore
“Our results show a very significant liberal bias,” they write. “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.” And all three papers, plus NBC and CBS, “were closer to the average Democrat in Congress than to the median member of the House of Representatives.” Fair and balanced, anyone? To use a simplified example, they say, suppose there were only two think tanks, and The New York Times cited the liberal one twice as often as the conservative one. Then the newspaper’s ADA score would be the same as that of a member of Congress who did the same.
Here’s a direct link to the study.
July 6th, 2004 at 10:58 am
So what you’re saying is that you actually buy a study that purports to show Drudge is “centrist?” I doubt Drudge would even buy that claim.
Although I do tend to wonder why we haven’t heard anything about this until now, considering this study is nearly a year old. One would expect Fox News to trumpet these results to vindicate their “fair and balanced” claim. Odd that they didn’t.