Saturday, July 14, 2007

The Editorial
KOPEL: Newshounds.us keeps tabs on Fox News
Similar watchdogs good idea for other networks.
"If you hate Fox News, you will love Newshounds.us, a citizen activist Web site dedicated to criticizing Fox. I learned about the site a few weeks ago, for its coverage of Bill O'Reilly's numerous sensational untruths about Boulder High School... Some of the Newshounds write-ups on other Fox topics strike me as too conspiracy-minded or Manichean. I agree with Newshounds that Fox is slanted to the right, but to a lesser degree than CBS, ABC and NBC slant left, as detailed in a 2005 Quarterly Journal of Economics study."

The Research
Read the research behind this editorial in Quarterly Journal of Economics. See v.120 number 4 (Nov. 2005), pp. 1191-1237. A Measure of Media Bias by Tim Groseclose & Jeffrey Milyo.

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