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well, here's a question (i'm in the middle of stuff, so only have time to ask it, really)...
i don't know what you're talking about with this "undeniably leftist" stuff.
the only places i know of that even tries to document this canard (and i view it as a canard) is reed irvine's ultra-right "think tank"--maybe david horowitz is on the case as well (but come on...it's david horowitz).
in both cases, the methologies used are so shot through with problems, logical and empirical, that it's almost impossible to take them seriously.
in the above, without even going into anything in much detail, there's quantitative information about the dominance of the conservatives in radio and in fox's abandonment of any pretense to being other than an infotainment outfit that shills for conservatives (almost everything krugman mentions has been known for a long time, has been documented).
so that's the question: can you point me to some data to back up this "left" or "left bias" claim?
ticking off a couple of the usual suspects: there's infotainment i've seen that's based on journalists as a population tending to vote democrat. but to correlate that to a particular mode of writing is to assume that there are no journalistic standards, that the guild of journalists is a joke, etc. i would submit that the right wants collectively to believe that is the case because in their hands, journalistic standards are a joke. and guilds--who wants wage slaves to organize anyway?
the other i've seen is usually some vague stuff about the ny times being "liberal"--but there's abundant information that shows the ny times is basically legitimatist. it approves of whomever is in power so long as that approval does not land it in the kind of problems that it's sycophantic repetition of bush-arguments for iraq did, which is in a problem of legitimacy for itself.
so my suspicion is that one or both of these will end up substituting for data....
(sorry, i was able to steal a little more time than i thought i could...but have to get back to what i was doing...apologies if this is disjointed)
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