[Vision2020] An Interesting Study of Media Bias

[Paul Duffau]

Interesting rant, Tom.  Thank you for sharing....

Now would you care to discuss the methodology?  That's the part that I found interesting.

Paul



At 11:23 AM 7/3/04 -0700, you wrote:
>Now, here is a major surprise.  Did you know that each of the privately
>owned news services tend to be to the right or left of center when they
>report the news?  WOW!  Hold the presses.  Better yet, sue the presses.
>
>Too many people tend to file the "L" word in the same cabinet as the "F"
>word.  How dare somebody be liberal?  How dare somebody have an opinion that
>is bound by community consciousness?
>
>Everybody knows that the Moral Majority is found at the top of the list of
>"Who's Who in Conservative America".
>
>We must not . . . We cannot . . . We will not allow our community to be
>exposed to concepts or philosophies contrary to the moral majority.  If we
>accept just one free-thinking liberal into our inner-most moral sanctum and
>allow him/her to express his/her liberal opinions to our community, who
>knows where it is likely to end.
>
>That liberal John F. Kennedy gave birth to the Peace Corps, thus providing
>an option to invasions of foreign lands by corporate America, and developing
>a liberal flavor on the "Moral Highground".  Can you imagine out-sourcing
>without an increase in your financial "bottom line"?
>
>Then came Lyndon Johnson and his Headstart Program.  Do you really think
>that low-income families should reap any benefits from their tax dollar?
>How can America provide tax breaks to families earning over $200,000
>annually if we spend it on domestic programs for the under-privileged?
>
>And don't get me started on that tree-hugging Jimmy Carter and his Habitats
>for Humanity.  You give a guy one lousy Nobel Peace Prize and he thinks we
>should listen to him.
>
>See you at the polls.
>
>Take care of yourselves and each other,
>
>Tom Hansen
>That radically moderate left-wing conservative
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> > [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Paul Duffau
> > Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 9:54 AM
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: [Vision2020] An Interesting Study of Media Bias
> >
> >
> > I'd be interested in comments about the authors statistical methology...
> >
> > http://www.yale.edu/isps/seminars/american_pol/groseclose.pdf
> >
> > Paul Duffau
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