Conservative media group finds media bias - for McCain

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While the readers of DailyKos, and other Democratic-leaning blogs, probaby said "ho-hum" at the news that the media is biased towards John McCain, the revelation published in the Sunday LA Times is even more stunning when you consider the source of the study, the Center for Media and Public Affairs ("CMPA")

The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.
During the evening news, the majority of statements from reporters and anchors on all three networks are neutral, the center found. And when network news people ventured opinions in recent weeks, 28% of the statements were positive for Obama and 72% negative.
Network reporting also tilted against McCain, but far less dramatically, with 43% of the statements positive and 57% negative, according to the Washington-based media center.

My diary is below (please recommend, if you have a Kos account, thanks!)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/28/124220/278/132/558203

And, thanks to DUer Cosmicdot for digging up the links at Sourcewatch.

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to see if anybody else will read it.