Media Bias

Media Expert Decries Campaign Coverage

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


DALLAS — The founder of a prestigious institute on media and politics added his voice Saturday to the chorus of complaint over perceived press b...

Newsweek Examines The "Myth" Of Media Objectivity

Newsweek | Evan Thomas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


She tried to make a joke of it. At the debate in Cleveland last week, Hillary Clinton brought up a "Saturday Night Live" skit about journalists fawnin...

NYT: Clinton Opens Up To Press, Obama Becomes "Cautious, Guarded"

NY Times | MARK LEIBOVICH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has become the open and accessible candidate -- sharing beers with reporters, taking endless questions from voters at c...

Bill: Hillary Will Go Negative, And It's The Media's Fault

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Cli...

Jason Linkins

Fox News Attacks: Edwards And Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Had Kurtz scrutinized Fox's record, he might have noted that Edwards and Obama have been straight up defamed by that particular outlet.

Jason Linkins

Media Upbraids Itself For Its Own Unfair Treatment Of Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Until any other candidate gets Kurtz, Halperin, and Fineman to inveigh on their behalf against the media's unfairness, we're just going to have to say, yes, indeed, it is not a level playing field.

Study: Pro-Dem Papers Cover Unemployment Issues More When Sitting Prez Is Republican

Freakonomics Blog | Melissa Lafsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


As Levitt has noted in the past, media bias is a hot topic among some economists. Typically the bias is reflected in a paper's reporting (as Dubner po...

Study: 60 Percent Of Nation's Daily Papers Publish More Conservative Columnists Than Progressives

Media Matters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


This project did something that has never been done before: It amassed data on the syndicated columnists published by nearly every daily newspaper in ...