More Bias by the Numbers

Another month, another study that demonstrates just how slanted MSM coverage really is.

Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — hardly a bastion of conservative orthodoxy — found that in covering the current presidential race, the media are sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans.
Democrats are not only favored in the tone of the coverage. They get more coverage period. This is particularly evident on morning news shows, which “produced almost twice as many stories (51% to 27%) focused on Democratic candidates than on Republicans.”

This is not exactly a jolt to anyone who routinely reads a newspaper or watches the national nightly news. Still, it’s good to have the numbers to put it in the realm of the objective.

I mentioned yesterday that the MSM has all but coronated Barak Obama as the Democratic candidate for President. This bit can’t make the Clinton campaign very happy, despite having Media Matters as their paid shills.

Breaking it down by candidates, the survey found that Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the favorites. “Obama’s front page coverage was 70% positive and 9% negative, and Clinton’s was similarly 61% positive and 13% negative.”

Oopsie. Looks like we might see another Charm Offensive to counter the Obamassiah!

(via memeorandum)

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