AMENDING BISMARK
Man, those Fox News memos are ugly.
Three points:
1) Someone should be able to do a straight-arrow objective content analysis of the memos and develop a bias quotient for Republican causes and against Democratic ones.
2) Someone should be able to make a rock-solid empirical case concerning the influence of John Moody's editorial guidelines on the content of Fox news reporting.
3) Someone should be able to make a persuasive case for editorial bias in story selection given the universe of news stories on any given day or week covered by the memos.
None of those people is me, though. Not because I like my sausage made sight unseen, but because I think that if you don't see an egregious editorial bias in Fox News, you're not worth talking to.
For the memos in html format, go here.
1 Comments:
So if you can do the work without bias, you're not worth talking to? :) My point is actually, sure *you* could do it, "just" show your work. Maybe you should be research director for Media Matters!
I actually wonder whether you could show a particular impact of Moody's memos on Fox reporting; Fox reporters have probably internalized/already accept such guidelines, and Moody just reinforces them.
But I don't doubt one could demonstrate differences over time between Fox and other networks, and cite Moody's memos as supporting evidence suggesting how that difference is maintained.
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