Alert the Media: Media bias leans left!

Mangan's Miscellany links to a UCLA Study that took three years to compile that the privately-owned American media leans to the left at about an ADA rating of 62.8 percent. For those lucky enuf to have escaped living inside the Beltway-Boston Corridor and the Left Coast, this is hardly news.

Surprisingly, the public PBS and NPR are rated less liberal than the private media, although not by much [61%].

The biggest surprise is that the most liberal of all media outlets is the WSJ, with CBS Evening News, the NYT and LAT all close behind at 2,3,4.

The only two out of the twenty major outlets who scored right of center were Fox News Brit Hume and the Washington Times, although Brit Hume's was almost dead-center near the ADA 50 yard line.

Another surprise, the Drudgereport scores left of center, which will not shut the sputum-flecked, obscenity-spewing mouths of some of the most egregiously leftist blogs from calling Matt Drudge a rightwingnut out of touch with America.

Indeed, in the electronic media, the five most centrist news outlets are PBS Lehrer, CNN Aaron Brown [RIP along with Bob Novak as CNN lurches to the left under Jon Klein], Hume's Fox News, the Drudgereport and ABC's GoodMorningAmerica.

I predict that now that Andrew Heyward and Dan Rather have been guillotined, the Committee of Public Safety at CBS might drift rightward away from the most liberal of the electronic outlets.

Whowoulddathunk the Wall Street Journal as the most liberal of the broadsheet rags? No surprise about the Wash Times, but the WaPo is in the middle of the pack compared to the NYT and LAT [who will inch rightward as some of the Robert Scheer types are commanded to leave].

The study will appear in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

The University of Missouri was a major participant in the study, led by UCLA, and elaborate precautions---including funding safeguards---were taken to ensure an objective overview.

I'd be surprised to see any of the major media outlets carry this study, outside of perhaps Fox and the Wash Times.

I've been having trouble with links, so hope this summary helps.