I need sources debunking alleged "liberal bias"

[CanuckAmok]

on edit: I mean liberal bias in the news media.

I know MediaMatters.org has an article on sunday morning air-time (anyone have a link to that?).

Are there any other credible sources for RW/LW air time stats? Bias-busters?

Thanks....

[CanuckAmok]

1. kick

:kick:

[TexasLawyer]

2. Amy Goodman's "Static"

and Al Franken's Lies and the lying Liars... come to mind.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Clips of Norah O'Donnell on NBC.

Old clips of Kira Phillips.
99% of Fox News reporting (Alan Colmes is the other 1%)

[stevedeshazer]

4. Here

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003

[Emit]

5. Eric Alterman's "What Liberal Bias" was a great read on this subject.

About the book:
http://www.whatliberalmedia.com/

The Eric Alterman Website:
http://www.ericalterman.com/


More about the book:
http://www.amazon.com/What-Liberal-Media-Truth-About/dp/0465001769

From Publishers Weekly
While the idea that a liberal bias pervades the mainstream media has been around for years, it gained new currency with the 2001 publication of Bernard Goldberg's Bias and its 2002 successor, Ann Coulter's Slander. Alterman (Sound & Fury; Who Speaks for America?; etc.) now seeks to debunk the notion and goes so far as to argue that bastions of alleged liberalism like the Washington Post and ABC News "have grown increasingly cowed by false complaints of liberal bias and hence, progressively more sympathetic to the most outlandish conservative complaints." He largely succeeds: whatever your politics, Alterman delivers well-documented, well-argued research in compulsively readable form. His chapter on business journalism, for instance, is a thrill-ride through the excesses of late 1990s optimism and the subsequent crash in stock valuations and mood. But he also counters that while the economy was peaking, major media outlets virtually ignored traditional left-wing issues like labor rights, which had been neglected, and income inequality, which was growing. In contrast, he says, the media fawned over chief executives while almost totally failing to confront corporate fraudsters. Alterman also observes that the center of American politics has shifted to the right in the last several decades, which he attributes to efforts by conservative think tanks and their financial backers. Whether readers agree with Alterman or not, his writing on the business of opinion making is eye-opening. This book will be required reading for anyone in politics or journalism, or anyone curious about their complicated nexus.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

[Rosemary2205]

6. Just post a list

Use This link of the ownership - http://www.mediaowners.com/
This list of political donations - http://www.opensecrets.org


First example is of the biggest is Time Warner - the CEO Richard Parsons gives to both sides but overwhelmingly to Republicans.

[Emit]

7. On a similar note, here's "The Big Ten" in The Nation's guide to media ownership

Accompanied by Mark Crispin Miller's piece, "What's Wrong With This Picture?"

http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

[lurky]

8. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

(FAIR) is an awesome group that has been fighting RW media spin since the Reagan era. They might be a good resource:
www.fair.org

[CanuckAmok]

9. This is gold. Thanks everybody.

Anything else?

[johnaries]

11. Unfortunately, ALL of those resources are considered "Liberal"

by the RW spinmeisters. Any news source that dares to expose the truth is automatically considered "Liberal". Media Matters has been targeted many times recently by several of the RW pundits because it proved them wrong.
However, one thing you could try - when they accuse Media Matters of being Liberal refer them to the 2004 Debates, where they critique statements by both Bush and Kerry. Point out that if Media Matters was Liberally biased they would have focused solely on Bush. It probably won't sink through their brainwashing, but it may.

[Poiuyt]

10. I know for a fact that there IS a liberal bias in the media. Bill O'Reilly said so.

So did Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, and John Gibson, and Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter, Neil Boortz, and Michael Savage, and Chris Wallace, and Brit Hume, and Neil Cavuto, and Laura Ingraham, and Nora O'Donnell, and Robert Novack, and Oliver North, and Michelle Malkin, and Michael Reagan, and G. Gordon Liddy.

[lurky]

12. Reality has a liberal bias.

I figure that's why conservatives are so darn angry all the time.
:)