{"id":39057,"date":"2004-08-05T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2004-08-05T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T00:09:50","slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-your-modern-democratic-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=39057","title":{"rendered":"Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern Democratic Party\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

From UPI<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Several members of Congress sent a letter Tuesday to Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, to express their opposition to what they say is the network’s “unfair and unbalanced” bias towards the Republican Party.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe group, composed of 38 Democrats and Independents from the U.S. House of Representatives, has requested that Murdoch meet with them to discuss their concerns.\n<\/p>\n

\n“The responsibility of the media is to report the news in an unbiased, impartial and objective manner,” the letter reads.\n<\/p>\n

\n“It seems clear that Fox News network has a deliberate bias in favor of, and often serves as an extension of, the Republican Party’s policies and ideology.”\n<\/p>\n

\nMurdoch owns 100 cable channels, 40 television stations, nine satellite networks, one film studio and 175 newspapers, reaching an estimated 4.7 billion people worldwide.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe letter’s co-signers include Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., a member of the House Democratic Leadership, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., ranking member on the Joint Economic Committee.\n<\/p>\n

\nA spokesman for Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said there were legislative avenues that the group could pursue as a secondary measure but declined to speculate on what those might be.  The letter cites recent studies by organizations such as Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and the Program on International Policy Attitudes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nHmmm.  Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting<\/a> you say?  PIPA<\/a>?  Please<\/i>. \n<\/p>\n

\nA friendly reminder<\/a> for these stalwarts of free speech in the House:<\/p>\n

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Tim Groseclose, of UCLA and Stanford, and Jeff Milyo of the University of Chicago used data comparing which think tanks various politicians liked to quote and which think tanks various media outlets liked to quote in their news stories to estimate two ADA scores for each media outlet in the study, one based on the number of times a think tank was cited, and the other on the length of the citation.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe media outlets were The New York Times<\/i>, Los Angeles Times<\/i>, USA Today<\/i>, the three network news shows, Fox News’ Special Report and The Drudge Report (the [Yale study is online here<\/a>]).\n<\/p>\n

\n“Our results show a very significant liberal bias,” they write. “One of our measures found that The Drudge Report is the most centrist of all media outlets in our sample. Our other measure found that Fox News’ Special Report is the most centrist.” And all three papers, plus NBC and CBS, “were closer to the average Democrat in Congress than to the median member of the House of Representatives.” Fair and balanced, anyone? To use a simplified example, they say, suppose there were only two think tanks, and The New York Times <\/i>cited the liberal one twice as often as the conservative one. Then the newspaper’s ADA score would be the same as that of a member of Congress who did the same.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe estimated ADA score for Fox, based on citations, was 35.6. That puts it in the company of Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and a few points below the House median, 39.0. The two highest were The New York Times, at 67.6, and CBS Evening News, at 70.0. The average Republican in Congress has an ADA score of 11.2, and the average Democrat 74.1.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nJust like the new left to try to secure their hold on media bias by legislating against the editorial decisions of a particular news organization.  They’ll be going after The Washington Times<\/i> next, no doubt. \n<\/p>\n

\nI have no idea how anybody can vote for these people.  Honestly.  None<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n

\nupdate<\/i><\/b>:  Did I say they’d go after the Washington Times<\/i> next?  Because what I meant to say was that they’d go after t-shirts<\/i><\/a> next (h\/t<\/a> Michele).\n<\/p>\n

\nupdate 2<\/i><\/b>:  Did I say they’d go after t-shirts next?  Because what I meant to say was that they’d go after privately funded advertisements<\/a> next (h\/t<\/a> Allah).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From UPI: Several members of Congress sent a letter Tuesday to Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, to express their opposition to what they say is the network’s “unfair and unbalanced” bias towards the Republican Party. The group, composed of 38 Democrats and Independents from the U.S. House of Representatives, has requested that Murdoch meet with them to discuss their concerns. “The responsibility of the media is to report the<\/p>\n

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