PEW Report: MSNBC Far ‘More Partisan’ and Biased Than FOX News

Pew Report: MSNBC Far 'More Partisan' and Biased than FOX News

Pew Report: MSNBC Far ‘More Partisan’ and Biased than FOX News

A new report by PEW shows that MSNBC is much more partisan and biased than FOX News.
We could have told you this years ago, but now PEW has confirmed it.

Out of all of the stories that MSNBC did on Mitt Romney, only 3 were positive, and 71 of their 74 stories were negative.

In writing about the Pew study released today, I was struck by the big story of how negative coverage on several levels of presidential politics had become.

I think this is big trouble for democracy, especially the hostile level of discourse in social media. And that it’s something the media need to address collectively after the election.

But here’s one of several fascinating smaller findings of the study that are kind of stunning — even if they seem obvious and ho-hum to some of my more jaded, postmodern, aren’t-we-cleverly-ironic colleagues:

ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.

That’s not a news channel. That’s



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