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MSNBC Really is More Partisan Than FOX, According to Pew Study
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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 1975324" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Is this really a surprise?</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">MSNBC Really Is More Partisan Than FOX, According to Pew Study</span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">How does Comcast allow such wretched bias in presidential coverage?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">By David Zurawik</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The Baltimore Sun </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">November 2, 2012</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In writing about the Pew study released today, I was struck by the big story of how negative coverage on several levels of presidential politics had become.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I think this is big trouble for democracy, especially the hostile level of discourse in social media. And that it's something the media need to address collectively after the election.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">But here's one of several fascinating smaller findings of the study that are kind of stunning -- even if they seem obvious and ho-hum to some of my more jaded, postmodern, aren't-we-cleverly-ironic colleagues:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change Phil Griffin's title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propagandist hack in a totalitarian regime. You wonder how mainstream news organizations allow their reporters and correspondents to appear in such a cauldron of bias.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I thought show host Sean Hannity of Fox News defined party propagandist. But while his channel was bad, it wasn't as bad-boy biased as MSNBC.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The ratio of negative to positive stories in Fox's coverage of President Obama was 46 to 6.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Check out the full Pew study. It's a good one, and there is much food for thought in its findings as we approach the end of an election cycle marked by poor media performance.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story" target="_blank"> http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/winning_media_campaign_2012" target="_blank">Link to the Pew Study</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 1975324, member: 7900"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]Is this really a surprise?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][B][SIZE=4]MSNBC Really Is More Partisan Than FOX, According to Pew Study [/SIZE][/B] How does Comcast allow such wretched bias in presidential coverage? By David Zurawik The Baltimore Sun November 2, 2012 In writing about the Pew study released today, I was struck by the big story of how negative coverage on several levels of presidential politics had become. I think this is big trouble for democracy, especially the hostile level of discourse in social media. And that it's something the media need to address collectively after the election. But here's one of several fascinating smaller findings of the study that are kind of stunning -- even if they seem obvious and ho-hum to some of my more jaded, postmodern, aren't-we-cleverly-ironic colleagues: ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3. That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change Phil Griffin's title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propagandist hack in a totalitarian regime. You wonder how mainstream news organizations allow their reporters and correspondents to appear in such a cauldron of bias. I thought show host Sean Hannity of Fox News defined party propagandist. But while his channel was bad, it wasn't as bad-boy biased as MSNBC. The ratio of negative to positive stories in Fox's coverage of President Obama was 46 to 6. Check out the full Pew study. It's a good one, and there is much food for thought in its findings as we approach the end of an election cycle marked by poor media performance. [URL=" http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story"] http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story[/URL] [URL="http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/winning_media_campaign_2012"]Link to the Pew Study[/URL] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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