MSM Bias and the Iraqi War

A report just came out that claims that there was no real Iraqi War bias by the MSM.

NEW YORK -- A study of news coverage of the war in Iraq fails to support a conclusion that events were portrayed either negatively or positively most of the time.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism looked at nearly 2,200 stories on television, newspapers and Web sites and found that most of them couldn't be categorized either way.

Twenty-five percent of the stories were negative and 20 percent were positive, according to the study, released Sunday by the Washington-based think tank.

The three network evening newscasts tended to be more negative than positive, while the opposite was true of morning shows, the study said. Fox News Channel was twice as likely to be positive than negative, unlike the more evenhanded CNN and MSNBC, the study said.

A more limited look at campaign coverage found that 36 percent of stories on President Bush were negative, compared to 12 percent for Democrat John Kerry. Stories were positive 20 percent of the time for Bush, 30 percent for Kerry, said the project, which examined some 250 stories for tone.

There may not have been any obvious bias, but implied bias, bias of reporting only bad news, and bias of an anti-war slant are very evident. When all the MSM reports is death counts, exploding cars, terrorist demands, and not the helpful projects, building of schools, waste water treatment plants, roads, bridges, and hospitals, you can't tell me that this is not bias. When all you report are negative facts, then that is biased reporting, and I don't care what the report said, the MSM is biased.


Mr Minority