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ace--you seem to imagine that you can load up questions with dubious logic and/or assumptions as if there are no problems with that and when they're pointed out to you, you get all sniffly about it.
if you want to know how it is that ideological biases can be teased out of the ways in which infotainment is framed/presented, there are any number of approaches you can take, and it only requires a bit of research to start finding out what they are.
and there are debatable point in alot of the methodologies--like discourse analysis, say, which would define a set of categories as conservative-speak (for example) and then simply count the occurances across a given sample of infotainments--with that there are some problems (the definition of conservative-speak can be one, but that's usually resolved by taking some care with the building, making arguments for the classifications or interepretations)---there's problems of representativeness (which are typically addressed in the methodology section of a study, but one can argue about that)---and sometimes there are problems of overall interpretation (on the order of well these regularities look interesting and seem to say something, but what functionally do they mean? do people modulate their actions as a function of the frequency with which certain terms are repeated?---but this typically comes down to what is being explained or understood through the study, and within that usually comes to versions of the teleological fallacy--what you're looking to explain selects the elements of analysis for you in a way)....
i say all this because there are approaches to actual research that try to isolate political meanings and/or questions and they're not without problems necessarily---but they're actual projects and not questions pulled out from beneath your hat.
and there's a TON of such research generated all the time and a simple web-search would no doubt run you into some of it.
so my "value-added" (god i hate that expression) was to point out, in a relatively nice way i might add, that your questions were so badly framed as to be kinda useless.
but there are other versions of such questions that might be interesting--but you'd have to do a little work to get to them.
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