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Counting papers
Tom Brosz — (archived)

<>>>And I notice no one has risen to my bait of counting conservative newspapers and comparing it to the count of liberal ones

As for this, it is completely beyond my abilities, sorry. How would you go about it?



Yeah, like I've said before, we don't get paid for this, and it would be a lot of work. Also, you would probably have difficulty identifying a paper as liberal (the "fish-can't-tell-it's-wet" theory). One could say that it might be a clue that you can count the large conservative papers on one hand, but you would probably say all the rest are middle-of-the-road ("wet fish").

One can do it by deduction: by actual survey only 6 percent of the media identifies itself as conservative. One can kind of get an inkling of the big picture from that.

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