U.S. Historythrough newsKimby Josephson & Patrick Pijls

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Major newspapers● New York Times ● Wall Street Journal● Washington Post● Financial Times● USA Today● Miami Herald● Boston Globe● Chicago Tribune● Washington Times

Major news magazines● Time● Life● National Review● The Atlantic● The New Yorker● Vanity Fair● Forbes

Other...● NPR● Huffington Post● Politico● The Onion*

The New York Times

The Washington Post

TIME Magazine

LIFE Magazine

Political bias in U.S. news?● Former Washington Post reporter Thomas Edsall: "I agree that the … mainstream media …

presents itself as unbiased when, in fact, there are built into it many biases and they are overwhelmingly to the left."Host Hugh Hewitt: "Well, that’s very candid.... is it 10 to 1 Democrat to Republican? 20 to 1 Democrat to Republican?"Edsall: "It’s probably in the range of 15 to 25:1 Democrat....There is a real difficulty on the part of the mainstream media being sympathetic, or empathetic ... to the kind of thinking that goes into conservative approaches to issues. I think the religious right has been treated as sort of an alien world."

— Exchange on Hugh Hewitt’s syndicated radio show September 21, 2006

● “These are the social issues: gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you’ve been reading the paper with your eyes closed.”

— New York Times Public Editor Daniel Okrent in a July 25, 2004 column, “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?

● “I believe it is true that a significant chunk of the press believes that Democrats are incompetent but good-hearted, and Republicans are very efficient but evil.”

— Wall Street Journal political editor John Harwood on the April 23, 2005 Inside Washington.

● “It’s one of the great political myths, about press bias. Most reporters are interested in a story. Most reporters don’t know whether they’re Republican or Democrat, and vote every which way. Now, a lot of politicians would like you to believe otherwise, but that’s the truth of the matter. I’ve worked around journalism all of my life, Tom Snyder has as well, and I think he’ll agree with this, that most reporters, when you get to know them, would fall in the general category of kind of common-sense moderates. And also, let me say that I don’t think that ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ means very much any more, except to those kind of inside-the-Beltway people who want to use it for their own partisan political advantage. I don’t think it holds up.”

— Dan Rather answering a caller’s question about liberal bias on CBS’s Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, February 8, 1995.

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Political bias in U.S. News?

“...they find no correlation between the political slant of a paper and the owner’s ideology, as judged by political donations.”

“The bottom line is simple: Media owners generally do not try to mold the population to their own brand of politics. Instead, like other business owners, they maximize profit by giving customers what they want…”

“...But the findings also raise a more troubling question about the media’s role as a democratic institution. How likely is it that we as citizens will change our minds, or reach compromise with those who have differing views, if all of us are getting our news from sources that reinforce the opinions we start with?”

“Media Map”http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/media-map.html?preload=latimescom