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2.
Conservative Books and "Studies" Alleging "Liberal
Bias"
This
section examines books as well as "studies" published
(mostly by the Right and occasionally by others) purporting to show
"liberal bias" in the media. A closer examination of these
books and "studies" reveals in fact that such a claim is
unfounded and not credible.
Details
are covered in the following sub-sections.
2.1
BOOK: "The News Twisters" by Edith Efron (1971)
2.2
BOOK: “The Media Elite: America’s New Powerbrokers” by S. Robert
Lichter, Linda S. Lichter and Stanley Rothman (a 1986 book that was
used extensively by the Right to claim that a “liberal media”
exists)
2.3
BOOK: "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the
News" by Bernard Goldberg
2.4
BOOK: "Arrogance:
Rescuing America From the Media Elite" by Bernard Goldberg
2.5
BOOK: "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" by
Ann Coulter
2.6
BOOK: "Coloring the News" by William McGowan
2.7
STUDY: Election 2000/2004 media coverage "analysis" by
Robert Lichter's CMPA and the Project for Excellence in Journalism
(PEJ)
2.7A
STUDY: Analysis of Election 2000 Media Coverage by Robert Lichter's
CMPA and Project for Excellence in Journalism
2.7B
STUDY: Analysis of Election 2004 Media Coverage by Project for
Excellence in Journalism and Robert Lichter's CMPA
2.8
STUDY: Freedom Forum study of journalist voting preferences (1996)
2.9
PAPER: "A Measure of Media Bias" by Tim Groseclose and
Jeff Milyo, 2005
2.10 Other "liberal media"
papers/studies
2.10A
PAPER: "Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically
Biased?" by John Lott and Kevin Hassett (of the American
Enterprise Institute) (2004)
2.10B
PAPER: "Being the New York Times: The Political Behaviour of a
Newspaper" by Riccardo Puglisi (2004)
2.10C
BOOK CHAPTER: The chapter titled "The Mass Media and Voter
Information" in the upcoming (as of 4/18/05) book
"Analyzing Elections" by Rebecca Morton
2.11
Other surveys, books and opinion polls
2.11A
Public Opinion Polls
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