Conservative-Funded Study: Fox News Gives Most Balanced Coverage

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from the Center for Media and Public Affairs, via HuffPost:




Conservative-Funded Study: Fox News Gives Most Balanced Coverage
Center for Media and Public Affairs | December 28, 2007 08:11 AM


A study released this month by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University found that Fox News Channel's evening coverage was more "balanced" than that of the broadcast networks. However, the objectivity of the CMPA, which bills itself as a nonpartisan media watchdog group, is questionable, as the Center for Media and Democracy's SourceWatch found that "nearly all its funding comes from conservative foundations."

The conservative-funded study, which also claimed that TV election news has been most critical of Hillary Clinton and friendliest to Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama, found the following on the balance of Fox's coverage:

Who's Fair and Balanced?: Fox News Channel's coverage was more balanced toward both parties than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations of all Democratic candidates combined were split almost evenly - 51% positive vs. 49% negative, as were all evaluations of GOP candidates - 49% positive vs. 51% negative, producing a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties.

On the three broadcast networks, opinion on Democratic candidates split 47% positive vs. 53% negative, while evaluations of Republicans were more negative - 40% positive vs. 60% negative. For both parties combined, network evaluations were almost 3 to 2 negative in tone, i.e. 41% positive vs. 59% negative.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/28/conservativefunded-study_n_78528.html

[Ken Burch]

1. Well, of course. The unbalanced WOULD find FOX balanced.

n/t.

[HughMoran]

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[baldguy]

3. On the one hand they have Conservative commentators -

Then they have *Conservative* commentators on the other.

[tom_paine]

4. Nazi-funded studies say Jews biggest liars, Nazis most honest.

Naturally the Nazi-financed organization, Gleichschaltung, bills itself as a nonpartisan media watchdog group.

I haven;t has this much fun since the cigarette companies told me smoking doesn't cause lung cancer and that it's actually quite healthy for me.

These Bushies will NEVER stop being true to their totalitarian nature. They will try to launder their lies from every
And they do. They do.

[muntrv]

5. In related news, Exxon-Mobil funded scientists say there is no global warming.

[Solly Mack]

6. LMAO

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Assuming that there is any vaidity to how they measure

Negative/Positive, it does not address Liberal/Conservative imbalance.