# OMG..picking my jaw up off of the floor. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779 "2004-06-17T01:35:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/41 "2004-06-22T12:56:36Z")
Fox bills the network news coverage in general as fair and balanced. I’m reserving judgement on such. I don’t think it’s fair, though, **rjung** , to point as commentary shows on the network and scream bias. C’mon, man, that’s just not right. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/42 "2004-06-22T13:17:42Z")
Liberal, I take it you actually haven’t read the Sunday Business Post (which is Irish, BTW). ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/43 "2004-06-22T14:23:42Z")
This morning was my first time, when I googled for it. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/44 "2004-06-22T19:03:13Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Nice try. > > Consider yourself officially warned, anyway, **LouisB**. My apologies to **This Year’s Model** , to you, and to the board at large. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/45 "2004-06-22T19:29:38Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > I don’t think it’s fair, though, **rjung** , to point as commentary shows on the network and scream bias. If they’re going to promote _Hannity & Colmes_ as “a conservative and a liberal analyze the issues”, then they should get a conservative and a liberal, not a conservative and a hand-picked-milquetoast-moderate-wanna-be-wuss. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/46 "2004-06-22T19:36:01Z")
Most of you are educated people. Listen objectively to NPR and you will hear a leftward bias. You can also detect some rightward bias on Fox. The New York Times is obviously on the left. The Wall Street Journal on the right. It is intellectually dishonest to claim to find bias on one side and to be blind to it on the other. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/47 "2004-06-22T19:36:46Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > If they’re going to promote _Hannity & Colmes_ as “a conservative and a liberal analyze the issues”, then they should get a conservative and a liberal, not a conservative and a hand-picked-milquetoast-moderate-wanna-be-wuss. Well fine, **rjung**. That’s a fair criticism of the show on its merits. Which, when you’re discussing a show of this type, should be what you discuss. Bias doesn’t enter into it. I think, though, Alan Colmes is starting to get a bit tougher. Just my opinion, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/48 "2004-06-22T21:41:07Z")
> [@Evil One](#): > > Most of you are educated people. Listen objectively to NPR and you will hear a leftward bias. I haven’t. Of course, [most NPR sources are conservative](http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0525-11.htm). > [@](#): > > Despite a perception that National Public Radio is politically liberal, the majority of its sources are actually Republicans and conservatives, according to a survey released today by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a left-leaning media watchdog. > > “Republicans not only had a substantial partisan edge,” according to a report accompanying the survey, “individual Republicans were NPR’s most popular sources overall, taking the top seven spots in frequency of appearance.” In addition, representatives of right-of-center think tanks outnumbered their leftist counterparts by more than four to one, FAIR reported. > > Citing comments dating to the Nixon administration in the 1970s, the report said, “That NPR harbors a liberal bias is an article of faith among many conservatives.” However, it added, “Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR.” ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779/49 "2004-06-22T23:31:04Z")
> [@Evil One](#): > > Most of you are educated people. **Listen objectively to NPR and you will hear a leftward bias.** You can also detect some rightward bias on Fox. The New York Times is obviously on the left. The Wall Street Journal on the right. It is intellectually dishonest to claim to find bias on one side and to be blind to it on the other. I have posted this before. NPR is not left biased. > [@](#): > > Citing comments dating to the Nixon administration in the 1970s, the report said, “That NPR harbors a liberal bias is an article of faith among many conservatives.” However, it added, “Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR.” > > The study counted 2,334 sources used in 804 stories aired last June for four programs: “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Weekend Edition Saturday” and “Weekend Edition Sunday.” For the analysis of think tanks, FAIR used the months of May through August 2003. > > Overall, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 61 percent to 38 percent, a figure only slightly higher now, when the GOP controls the White House and both houses of Congress, than during a previous survey in 1993, during the Clinton administration. [http://www.mediareform.net/news/article.php?id=3650](http://www.mediareform.net/news/article.php?id=3650) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-picking-my-jaw-up-off-of-the-floor/250779.md?page=2)