reagan-was-a-horrible-president: diegueno: (via LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS: Fact or Fiction?) Our data does not support the thesis of a liberal media bias as it relates to Election 2012 coverage. If anything, our analysis suggests a media bias towards both Mitt Romney and Republicans. There are multiple data points included in our analysis. In news stories and broadcast transcripts that we analyzed over the last 3 months, newsmakers appearing in the media as partisan Republicans are quoted at a 44% higher rate than partisan Democrats. Additionally, the ratio of positive to negative coverage was 17.1% more critical of Obama than Romney. We processed 717 articles and 15,357 quotes collected between May 1 and July 15, 2012. But Republicans won’t let something like facts get in the way of lying about the so-called “liberal media”. It’s one of their all-time favorite lies, and they’re stickin’ to it!

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

diegueno:


Our data does not support the thesis of a liberal media bias as it relates to Election 2012 coverage. If anything, our analysis suggests a media bias towards both Mitt Romney and Republicans. There are multiple data points included in our analysis. In news stories and broadcast transcripts that we analyzed over the last 3 months, newsmakers appearing in the media as partisan Republicans are quoted at a 44% higher rate than partisan Democrats. Additionally, the ratio of positive to negative coverage was 17.1% more critical of Obama than Romney. We processed 717 articles and 15,357 quotes collected between May 1 and July 15, 2012.

But Republicans won’t let something like facts get in the way of lying about the so-called “liberal media”. It’s one of their all-time favorite lies, and they’re stickin’ to it!

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