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11.03.2009 10:43 am

Numbers show increasingly partisan media audiences

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

John Harwood, in a New York Times Caucus blog titled “If Fox Is Partisan, It Is Not Alone,” presents evidence that “partisan fragmentation throughout America’s news media and their audiences has grown significantly.”

Harwood — noting that he appears on CNBC and…

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09.18.2009 12:21 pm

Elite or prurient, the press sure is fascinated with Yale murder

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jack Shafer, the often-irreverent media critic for Slate.com, offers some theories for why murders at Ivy League schools get so much press coverage.  His column’s headline: “Murder Draped in Ivy. Why the press can’t get enough of Harvard or Yale…

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09.15.2009 12:02 pm

Lack of ACORN coverage spurs allegations of liberal bias

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In a comment on the Editors’ Desk blog post about Van Jones, Nonpartisan says:

You guys missed it….clearly. And you issued the same B.S. statement that the NY Times printed after they “missed it” as well. You guys didn’t miss, you…

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07.07.2009 11:35 am

E&P asks: Did media help push Sarah Palin into resigning?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

That’s the question of the day being posed by Editor & Publisher, “America’s oldest journal covering the newspaper industry.”

On its site today, E&P asks: “Did Media Help Push Sarah Palin Into Resigning as Governor?”

NEW YORK — Earlier this month we introduced…

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04.16.2009 12:00 pm

Fox, MSNBC guilty of prejudging tea party protests, TV critic says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LA Times media critic James Rainey says both Fox News and MSNBC were guilty of prejudging Wednesday’s tax party protests.

Rainey writes:

“You’d expect conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity to be hyping today’s wave of anti-tax “tea parties.” But Fox…

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01.23.2009 10:44 am

Forbes lists most influential liberals in the media

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Forbes.com declares that the reigning ideology in Washington officially changed from conservative to liberal with the inauguration of Barack Obama. Forbes says: “We use those terms without apology, as they are used in American political discourse.”

To mark that declaration,  Forbes…

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12.31.2008 12:59 pm

Are you a fan or foe of the New York Times?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It seems that hardly anyone is neutral when it comes to The New York Times. (Witness the comments on yesterday’s lobbyist lawsuit post.)

Peter Osnos of The Century Foundation is an unabashed fan. He makes that clear in a column about the Times’ new…

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10.24.2008 6:31 pm

Would media love Sarah Palin as a Democrat?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In sort of a Bizarro World take on the presidential landscape,  John Carlson, a radio talk show host in Seattle, muses that the liberal media would have a completely different take on Sarah Palin’s credentials for office if she were a…

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10.14.2008 10:55 am

Has coverage of McCain’s rowdy crowds been fair?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fighting words were uttered at recent campaign rallies for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Not by the candidates, but by some of their supporters in the crowd.

“Terrorist” and “off with his head” were shouts directed at Barack Obama, in response…

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09.03.2008 10:53 am

Paper favoring McCain or Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Politics makes for some strange perceptions.

A caller this morning decried what she called our obvious bias toward McCain.

“I noticed last week when the DNC was going on you couldn’t run a story about Obama without a story about McCain right…

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