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For instance, after several pages and multiple graphs about the slow decline of network news and its many outlets, the report contains about two pages and zero graphs on Cable TV. No real statistics, no comparative trend lines, just a few flat statements that Fox Cable TV News is expanding its viewership while EVERY OTHER TV News Program, with the exception of the Rather-less CBS-Evening News, is losing audience.
The CSJ remains clueless and driven by an agenda. Ignore the Elephant-In-The-Living-Room, which in Cable TV is FOX NEWS. The three-year study by UCLA/Missouri does not seem worthy of citation, since it proclaims a strong overall bias to the left in both electronic and print media. The closest it comes to self-revelation:
In that regard, the poll finds that many journalists - especially those in the national media - believe that the press has not been critical enough of President Bush. Majorities of print and broadcast journalists at national news organizations believe the press has been insufficiently critical of the administration. Many local print journalists concur. This is a minority opinion only among local news executives and broadcast journalists. While the press gives itself about the same overall grade for its coverage of George W. Bush as it did nine years ago for its coverage of Bill Clinton (B- among national journalists, C+ from local journalists), the criticism in 1995 was that the press was focusing too much on Clinton's problems, and too little on his achievements
The fact that over ninety percent of the Washington-based journalists surveyed in the pdf version of the UCLA/Missouri survey voted for Clinton and/or Gore is another nugget you won't find in the CSJ study. You get a hint of it in a Pew Survey of Journalists appended to the piece, but nothing inside the Report itself.
Wouldn't want to skew the agenda with the facts, would we?
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