Anybody have a good study on media bias?

[SineSwiper]

Curious to find an actual study that rated newspapers (and maybe other media sources) by their bias. I was having a conversation with a rather right-winged co-worker, and he claimed that there was no such thing as a right-winged newspaper. "Well, what about Washington Times?", I said. "Oh, that's a liberal paper." "If Washington Times is liberal, then what in the hell is the Post?"

Seems like arguments like these can be easily quelled with scientific research in the area. There's too many people that have this misconception in the "liberal media" just because their POV make them feel that way.

[Zeus]

Read "Bias" :-)

[SineSwiper]

Shut up! I said that the "liberal media" is a myth, not reality.

[Andrew, Killer Bee]

I know this doesn't answer your question, but most of the American papers and magazines I've read and (particularly) the American news shows I've seen have been right-minded.

I wouldn't dedicate much time to finding a study proving this, though. Anybody that claims the American media is liberally biased will likely dismiss any studies showing otherwise as being liberally biased :).

[SineSwiper]

Well, there's a lot of them, but even I'm not naive enough to think that something like NYT is at least left-center. (I would consider something like Salon fully "left".)

[Zeus]

Shut up! I said that the "liberal media" is a myth, not reality.

Ah man, that was funny. Just the reaction I was hoping for :-)

All you have to do is get him to watch Fox News and I know for a fact it's either the Times or Post in Washington, I think it's the latter. Tort?

[Tortolia]

The Washington Times is regarded as the more conservative of the publications, yes.