Media bias: It's as simple as this,

[ProSense]

reaching nearly 30 million more people!

The ‘conservative advantage in syndicated op-ed columns.’

New Media Matters study finds that in newspapers around the country, conservative syndicated columnists receive more space than their progressive counterparts:

– “Sixty percent of the nation’s daily newspapers print more conservative syndicated columnists every week than progressive syndicated columnists. Only 20 percent run more progressives than conservatives, while the remaining 20 percent are evenly balanced.”

– “In a given week, nationally syndicated progressive columnists are published in newspapers with a combined total circulation of 125 million. Conservative columnists, on the other hand, are published in newspapers with a combined total circulation of more than 153 million.”

– In 38 states, “conservative columns reach more readers in total than progressive columns.”

That's print, and consider the bias in broadcast.

[AndyTiedye]

1. It Is as Simple As This:

[snot]

3. Kicking this response! I don't know why

this seems to be the subject of perpetual amnesia or whatever.

Until we roll back the loosening of restrictions on the consolidation of media ownership and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, Dems will continue to face a steep uphill battle.

[Ian David]

2. CONservatives will (falsely) argue that this is because it's the conservative columnists that sell.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Print Has Always Been CONservative

Henry Luce was as big a wingnut as they came...he started Time Magazine. Many of the large papers originate from CONservative families that also are involved in broadcasting as well. As long as I've read papers I've seen far more conservatives from Evan and Novak and Buckley to Mark Steyn and a whole slew of others...they've always been there.

What's changed is the lines between reporting and commentary...journalism and punditry and being impartial or writing with an agenda. Commentators and Op/Eds usually are well defined, it's when the "reporters" or "journalists" start spewing political talking points and jading their writing and reporting, that's where things have changed.