Bias in the US Main Stream Media
The Boston Globe is carrying a story today that states.
"The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.
Only 20 percent were positive toward Bush compared to 30 percent of stories about Kerry that were positive, according to the report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The study looked at 16 newspapers of varying size across the country, four nightly newscasts, three network morning news shows, nine cable programs and nine Web sites through the course of 2004."
Now I know of no comparable Canadian Project. I checked my local university but nothing was listed there. I am willing to bet though that the number of negative stories about Bush in the Canadian media would be a lot higher.
"The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.
Only 20 percent were positive toward Bush compared to 30 percent of stories about Kerry that were positive, according to the report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The study looked at 16 newspapers of varying size across the country, four nightly newscasts, three network morning news shows, nine cable programs and nine Web sites through the course of 2004."
Now I know of no comparable Canadian Project. I checked my local university but nothing was listed there. I am willing to bet though that the number of negative stories about Bush in the Canadian media would be a lot higher.
posted by John Flaxman at 7:15 PM
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