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Stop the presses!(Notes & Comments: January 2006)
A report from UCLA has the amazing news: "Media Bias Is Real"! Who would have thought it? A press release from the university summarizes the painstaking research of Tim Groseclose, a political scientist at UCLA, and Jeffrey Milyo, an economist from the University of Missouri. These two scholars, aided by twenty-one research assistants, spent ten years combing through U.S. media coverage. Their findings, due out momentarily in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, reveal the extraordinary scoop: there is "a systematic liberal bias" in U.S. media! "I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," Mr. Groseclose said. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are." Compared to members of Congress, Mr. Milyo added, major media outlets are "quite moderate, ... but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left." Extraordinary! We never would have guessed.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Stop the presses!(Notes & Comments: January 2006)