Non-biased reporting produces better ratings

By Tom Quiner Fox News has triple the audience as CNN. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism publishes a report titled “The State of the News Media.” Their 2012 report revealed that the Fox News Channel had 1.9 million viewers compared to 689,000 viewers for CNN. The graphic above might explain why. Note the CNN…

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Media bias 101

A simple story in the Des Register about the impact of the coming sequester on Iowa airports had a subtle bias to it.

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Welcome, Liam

On Monday, I officially became a grandparent for the first time at Mercy Hospital, the Catholic hospital in town. The confluence of seeing my beautiful grandson on the same day that 43 Catholic dioceses sued the Obama administration left me reeling …

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Media bias

The president has admitted to drug use. Why didn’t the media pursue the story? Why didn’t they track down his friends from his high school and college years to learn more about this man who is transforming the value system of our nation from the top-down? The young Barack Obama’s life is largely a mystery. On the other hand, they are digging deep into Mitt Romney’s past, not out of journalistic integrity, but out of a desire to find dirt …

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Mainstream Media on trial

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wwf7UFYQnM]Newt Gingrich’s marital history is ancient history. It has been reported on ad infinitum. Much of it is true. Much of it is distorted. ABC chose to keep this old story alive with an interview with Mr. Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne. They chose to air the hit piece days before today’s South…

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Remarkable media bias at last night’s debate

By Tom Quiner Just when you think the media can’t crane to the left any further, they surprise you. Take ABC’s George Stephanopoulos with this question in last night’s Republican debate: [Do you believe] “that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?” Think about this question. As…

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