[CLUE-Talk] "Liberal" media?

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:22, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> One other tidbit of facts from the article I cited in my previous post - a 12 
> year study of ideological content of the media...
> 
> "In a careful 1999 study published in the academic journal Communications 
> Research, four scholars examined the use of the "liberal media" argument and 
> discovered a fourfold increase in the number of Americans telling pollsters 
> that they discerned a liberal bias in their news. But a review of the media's 
> actual ideological content, collected and coded over a twelve-year period, 
> offered no corroboration whatever for this view. The obvious conclusion: News 
> consumers were responding to "increasing news coverage of liberal bias media 
> claims, which have been increasingly emanating from Republican Party 
> candidates and officials."

A typical Republican tactic -- keep repeating something until people
believe it's true. 

Zonker
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