Monday, November 3, 2008

Print Media Bias, or at Least Endorsement

I recently posted some opinions and links on media bias in elections. My buddy Mike made a good point in a comment that it's a little vague to make a claim about "media" without defining it a bit better.

Point taken. So, here's a good post on the New York Times blog, "Freakonomics," that at least gives some good numbers on how the print media, if not biased, clearly has a tradition of endorsement.

MAIN STATS

Percentage of Daily Newspapers Endorsing Obama: 67.8%

Percentage of College Newspapers Endorsing Obama: 98.4%

Just a thought. Take what you read with a grain of salt (blogs like mine included). Best of luck getting in and out of a polling place in under 90 minutes tomorrow.

1 comment:

Emily said...

I agree with you. Thanks for finding concrete numbers to support my opinion. :)