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11-21-2012, 04:14 PM
MSNBC's bias before the election is astonishing according to Pew Research (http://www.examiner.com/article/msnbc-s-bias-before-the-election-is-astonishing-according-to-pew-research?CID=examiner_alerts_article)
Elections 2012
November 21, 2012
By: Angel Clark
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People often discuss the “liberal bias” they expect from the media, but rarely is it seen on such an astonishing scale as the Pew Research Center released Monday. The journalistic watchdog group examined 660 news stories from 49 “mainstream press outlets” from October 22, 2012 through November 5, 2012. When considering the week before the election, many major news networks aired coverage that was more “positive” about President Obama, much of it being Hurricane Sandy coverage, but some networks reached extreme levels. The polarization of Fox News and MSNBC increased just before the election, one news source showing bias in one direction and vice versa.
Fox News maintained a bias as 42% of their coverage of Romney the week before the election was positive and 11% of the station’s Romney coverage was negative. Their coverage of Obama was the opposite; only 5% of their Obama coverage was positive while 56% was negative. Most other news sources during this period had coverage that was more positive of Obama as the president toured the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Despite those numbers, Fox News was much more objective than MSNBC.
The final week before the election, MSNBC provided no positive coverage of Romney at all.
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The rest can be found at the source;
http://www.examiner.com/article/msnbc-s-bias-before-the-election-is-astonishing-according-to-pew-research?CID=examiner_alerts_article
Elections 2012
November 21, 2012
By: Angel Clark
Subscribe
People often discuss the “liberal bias” they expect from the media, but rarely is it seen on such an astonishing scale as the Pew Research Center released Monday. The journalistic watchdog group examined 660 news stories from 49 “mainstream press outlets” from October 22, 2012 through November 5, 2012. When considering the week before the election, many major news networks aired coverage that was more “positive” about President Obama, much of it being Hurricane Sandy coverage, but some networks reached extreme levels. The polarization of Fox News and MSNBC increased just before the election, one news source showing bias in one direction and vice versa.
Fox News maintained a bias as 42% of their coverage of Romney the week before the election was positive and 11% of the station’s Romney coverage was negative. Their coverage of Obama was the opposite; only 5% of their Obama coverage was positive while 56% was negative. Most other news sources during this period had coverage that was more positive of Obama as the president toured the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Despite those numbers, Fox News was much more objective than MSNBC.
The final week before the election, MSNBC provided no positive coverage of Romney at all.
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The rest can be found at the source;
http://www.examiner.com/article/msnbc-s-bias-before-the-election-is-astonishing-according-to-pew-research?CID=examiner_alerts_article