The fever-swamp fringe of the American Left subsists on a number of ongoing memes, the most head-scratchingly bizarre being that they are an oppressed minority among the media.<\/p>\n
As evidence, they point to Fox News – one cable network in an array of four broadcast and at least four major cable news sources – and whinge “They’re biased”, incredibly ignoring Eason Jordan’s CNN, Dan Rather’s CBS, and, worst of all, the late Peter Jennings’ ABC.<\/p>\n
Which would be bad enough, except it’s not true in the first place<\/a>.<\/p>\n Five news outlets \u2014 “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CNN’s “NewsNight With Aaron Brown,” Fox News’ “Special Report With Brit Hume” and the Drudge Report \u2014 were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist.<\/span><\/p>\n An additional feature of the study shows how each outlet compares in political orientation with actual lawmakers. The news pages of The Wall Street Journal scored a little to the left of the average American Democrat, as determined by the average ADA score of all Democrats in Congress (85 versus 84). With scores in the mid-70s, CBS’ “Evening News” and The New York Times looked similar to Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who has an ADA score of 74.<\/p>\n Most of the outlets were less liberal than Lieberman but more liberal than former Sen. John Breaux, D-La. Those media outlets included the Drudge Report, ABC’s “World News Tonight,” NBC’s “Nightly News,” USA Today, NBC’s “Today Show,” Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, NPR’s “Morning Edition,” CBS’ “Early Show” and The Washington Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n