Anybody watching WJ right now?? Is this guy for real??????

[sweetm2475]

Brit Hume's show is the 4th most centrist news show on tv??? The Drudge Report is centrist??? :freak:
WHERE do they find these people???

[vi5]

1. I'm not watching but it sounds like...

It's somebody associated with that "study" that has been debunked already. It basically was some supposedly neutral and unbiased study that used some calculations to show that the media leaned liberal.

[sweetm2475]

3. "leaned" liberal????

he said the media was something like 80% liberal. how do these people sit there with a straight face on and spew this crap? some of the callers gave it to him good, though.:spank:

[Touchdown]

5. I remember getting that from a winger.

... on aborther message board. He went on and on at how it was "Non-Partisan" which set off red flags for me. I can't recall the group's name, but this "Non-Partisan" media study group is funded by the usual suspects IIRC...

Olin
Bradley
Mellon-Skaife
Hoover Inst.
etc.

[Warpy]

2. They're referencing a bogus "study" put out by a wingnut

professor at UCLA who used Pox News as his benchmark for centrism. His baseline was skewed to the far right, his sampling was flawed, and his conclusions were baseless. He relied heavily on anecdote and produced few hard figures.

Stick to FAIR. They do real studies.

[ananda]

4. WJ is so rightwing now.

Earlier this morning I was watching the news guy tell us that the Abramoff scandal was bipartisan.. even though he said that Abramoff had never contributed a dime to the Democrats, and that the only money the Dems got was from the tribes. What's illegal about that? Patty Murray said she wasn't returning her money because she got it from the tribes, not Abramoff.

This is NOT a bipartisan scandal... but the spin is relentless. Ughhh.

Sue

[qanda]

6. All you need to know is that the most liberal

Of the media had about the same rank as Joe Liberman.

[Archae]

7. The study was bogus.

I mean, the ACLU is conservative and the Rand Corporation is liberal? :wtf:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003

[zbdent]

19. Well, the ACLU IS conservative

meaning that in the true, conservative way . . . defending EVERYBODY'S constitutional freedoms . . . including GOP head of Summit County Alex Arshinkoff, the KKK, Rush Limbaugh, etc. . . .

[CrackpotAmerica]

8. Who is WJ?

Insert jokes about my stupidity here!

I don't know who WJ is? ?

[Roxy66]

11. "Washington Journal"...morning call-in show on C-Span

[CrackpotAmerica]

14. LOL! Thx,,,

I had a brain freeze!

[CrackpotAmerica]

12. You, sir are a moron!

AAAh

Wash. Journal..


DUUUH!

[soothsayer]

15. I'm so glad you asked, cuz I didn't know either! Now it seems

obvious of course...

[CrackpotAmerica]

22. A true Edith Bunker Moment! :) NT

[zanne]

9. THEY define what's Liberal, Centrist and Conservative...

Then they rate people from one to ten. Anybody can make up a scale like that and claim bias. It's more RW spin.

[TayTay]

10. Wrong question, again.

The individual reporters often have no influence of what gets covered or how it gets edited. We need a survey over the political leanings and political contributions of the owners of the media. Now that would be an eye-opener.

[Deep13]

13. What's "WJ?"

:shrug:

wide jar

Washington's john

white jerk

wholy Japanese
????

[RebelOne]

16. Washington Journal

Morning show on C-Span. Those who use only initials assume everyone else knows what they mean.

[sweetm2475]

17. Sorry about the initials with no description.....

it's still early in the morning for me. Didn't mean to assume anything.:shrug:

[librechik]

18. Media Matter debunks this bizarre study here: (The ACLU leans right???)

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003

he is full of it

[sweetm2475]

20. thanks for the link!!!

:yourock:

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Here's My Equivalent To This Nut's Study

My terms are simple. Anyone to the right of John McCain is a Nazi. Now, my statistics indicate that 90% of conservative columnists, radio and tv hosts, and all but 2 republicans in congress are Nazis. See how simple that was.

Hey, that is as equally valid and unbiased as this idiot's study. That is to say, that neither study is worth the time it would take to read it.
The Professor

[NI4NI]

23. Saw the report 2 weeks ago

and thought what total nonsense and a 3 year waste of California taxpayer money. Study never took into account the accuracy of any item that they included in their survey. Some people just hate hearing truthful news reporting that counters their veiwpoint so they immediately label it as liberal bias.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. There Is No Evidence It Was Peer Reviewed Either

The Journal Of Econometrics does not require peer review prior to publication. It's a vanity press magazine for folks who must publish or perish. It is certainly not JUSE, or any equivalent in the social sciences that only publish peer reviewed works.
The Professor

[Touchdown]

25. Here's a link to this bogus study...

http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664

The actual study (I don't know how to link a PDF)

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tCEKSNVW-OYJ:mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/MediaBias.doc+media+bias+study%2BUCLA&hl=en&lr=lang_en

...and a critique of the dubious methodology they used.

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2005/12/21/201748/16

[leftchick]

26. So they used this instead of the F.A.I.R study?

What a fucking shock! C-Span has sunk so low, what the hell is left?