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Tom Brosz — (archived)

Some numbers from the Media Research Center.

Of course one concentrated on newspapers, while the other concentrated on TV news, so it's apples and oranges to some extent.

A column attempting to refute Nunberg can be found here.

Nunberg responds to all this in another article. Well written, although I have some trouble swallowing the concept of the Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood not being readily identifiable as liberal. Also points out the rat's nest you get into when foreign papers are included, with much different definitions of "liberal" and "conservative" than you get here.

Frankly, I'm tired of the whole thing, and I've got a headache. None of this statistical masturbation deals with the tone of the news, the selection of which stories to run, tilting of the viewpoint of a story, or most important, the vast majority of people who work in the media who consider themselves liberal, or more accurately, "not conservative."

All this counting crap aside, no one would argue that the Wall Street Journal is not conservative. But I would hear a lot of argument about the New York Times being liberal. And that's the problem.

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