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Originally Posted by Tchocky
From the Project for Excellence in Journalism, State Of The Media 2004:
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By more than three-to-one, national and local journalists believe it is a bad thing if some news organizations have a "decidedly ideological point of view" in their news coverage. And more than four-in-ten in both groups say journalists too often let their ideological views show in their reporting. This view is held more by self-described conservative journalists than moderates or liberals.
At the same time, the single news outlet that strikes most journalists as taking a particular ideological stance * either liberal or conservative * is Fox News Channel. Among national journalists, more than twice as many could identify a daily news organization that they think is "especially conservative in its coverage" than one they believe is "especially liberal" (82% vs. 38%). And Fox has by far the highest profile as a conservative news organization; it was cited unprompted by 69% of national journalists. The New York Times was most often mentioned as the national daily news organization that takes a decidedly liberal point of view, but only by 20% of the national sample.
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Journalists seeing Fox as conservative is like Vlad the Impaler seeing Htiler as a weenie. You have to bear the source in mind when reading such things.