[Jdawgboy]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Let's not delude ourselves on this. Although MSNBC quite clearly has a left wing bias, it is not the equivalent of Fox News on the left. There is significant evidence and academic finding showing that MSNBC viewers are significantly (as in statistical significance) more knowledgeable on current events than all other major news outlet viewerships and that viewers of Fox News are significantly less knowledgeable on current events than all other major news outlet viewers.

Current findings suggest that this is at least in part due to self-selection biases (I.E. already intelligent individuals watch MSNBC, while idiots watch Fox, etc.), but that most of the difference exists because the information provided by the news outlets is significant different in quality (bolstered by, again, much academic study that shows that the quality of news - distinguishing between news and entertainment media here is vital, by the way - provided by MSNBC is substantially better than that provided by Fox).

Sure, the news provided by MSNBC definitely has a left wing-bias (also shown by academic study), but that does not make it a Fox equivalent. There is no left wing Fox equivalent currently in American news.

By the way, most political communications scholars find some level of bias in all major outlets. ABC and NBC had a slight rightward bias in 2004, IIRC, in the literature, whereas CBS had a slight leftward bias, again IIRC.

Only thing I'll say on this subject is Rachael Maddow is awesome!

I really need to get DT soon and take a lot of pics of the construction including the West Campus area.