REPORT: ACORN OBSESSION: Beck, Hannity obsess over ACORN while virtually ignoring major corruption scandals
September 23, 2009 4:33 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: CNN's Lou Dobbs problem and the immigration debate
September 14, 2009 9:29 am ET | Continue reading | Comments
"Voice of the opposition": Fox News openly advocates against Democratic Congress, White House
September 11, 2009 12:39 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: On Fox News, opponents of health care reform outnumber supporters by 6-to-1 margin
August 12, 2009 5:43 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Not just immigration: Dobbs out of step with his network on gun coverage
July 29, 2009 6:37 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Dobbs' immigration obsession out of step with CNN's news coverage
July 27, 2009 5:18 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: America: A Center-Left Nation
May 27, 2009 1:00 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Time and again, Fox News doctors video to smear progressives
May 05, 2009 8:30 am ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Media favor process over substance in Obama press briefings
April 24, 2009 7:55 am ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: "Fair and balanced" Fox News aggressively promotes "tea party" protests
April 08, 2009 3:58 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Conservative media consistently scapegoat undocumented immigrants, ACORN
April 07, 2009 8:50 am ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Despite warnings from many economists that stimulus may be too small, network news rarely raised the issue
March 06, 2009 3:58 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear
March 05, 2009 12:11 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
UPDATED REPORT: Economists comprised only 6 percent of guest appearances discussing stimulus on cable news, Sunday shows
February 24, 2009 2:09 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
REPORT: Lack of demand: Cable channels, Sunday shows leave economists on the sidelines in recovery debate
February 11, 2009 6:07 pm ET | Continue reading | Comments
More Reports
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July 2008
Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Prime-Time Cable News
Media Matters for America examined four programs on each of the three cable news networks during prime time, and recorded the gender and ethnicity of every guest who appeared during the month of May 2008 -- nearly 1,700 guest appearances in all. The results demonstrate that, at least in prime time, whatever effort the networks have made to increase the diversity of their guests have borne little fruit. Although there may be more African-American political analysts appearing during the daytime hours (particularly on CNN and MSNBC) in prime time -- when the audiences are largest -- white men continue to dominate.
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September 2007
Black and White and Re(a)d All Over:
The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns
This project did something that has never been done before: It amassed data on the syndicated columnists published by nearly every daily newspaper in the country. While a few publications, most notably Editor & Publisher, cover the syndicated newspaper industry, no one has attempted to comprehensively assemble this information prior to now. The results show that in paper after paper, state after state, and region after region, conservative syndicated columnists get more space than their progressive counterparts.
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June 2007
The Progressive Majority:
Why a Conservative America Is a Myth
Conventional wisdom says that the American public is fundamentally conservative -- hostile to government, in favor of unregulated markets, at peace with inequality, wanting a foreign policy based on the projection of military power, and traditional in its social values. But as this report demonstrates, that picture is fundamentally false.
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May 2007
Left Behind:
The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media
It would surprise few people, conservative or progressive, to learn that coverage of the intersection of religion and politics tends to oversimplify both. If this oversimplification occurred to the benefit or detriment of neither side of the political divide, then the weaknesses in coverage of religion would be of only academic interest. But as this study documents, coverage of religion not only overrepresents some voices and underrepresents others, it does so in a way that is consistently advantageous to conservatives.
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March 2007
If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative
Special Report: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows
On the Sunday after the 2006 midterm elections, in which Democrats took control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years, viewers tuned in to NBC's Meet the Press to hear what the Democratic win meant for the country -- only to discover that host Tim Russert did not have any Democrats on at all. That incident is hardly an aberration. This report shows that the Sunday shows -- Meet the Press, ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, and Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday -- have consistently given Republicans and conservatives an edge over their Democratic and progressive counterparts in the last two years, the period of the 109th Congress.
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