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PERFECT TEST OF MEDIA BIAS.(Brief Article)

The American Enterprise

| April 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's almost a perfect experiment: A President is inaugurated and immediately issues executive orders that reverse several policies of his predecessor. Then the next President is inaugurated and reverses the very same policies back to where they were.

Now watch whether the media treat the two identical stories the same way. The Media Research Center did, and they found just the bias you'd expect: When President Clinton revoked Ronald Reagan's executive ...

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