McWebber wrote:


What did the study examine? News? Or all of the Fox broadcasts including
their commentators?


Quote from the study:

" Few studies provide an objective measure of the slant of news,
and none has provided a way to link such a measure to ideological
measures of other political actors. That is, none of the existing
measures can say, for example, whether the New York Times is more
liberal than Tom Daschle or whether Fox News is more conservative
than Bill Frist. We provide such a measure. Namely, we compute an
ADA score for various news outlets, including the New York Times,
the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Drudge Report, Fox News?
Special Report, and all three networks? nightly news shows.

Our results show a very significant liberal bias. All of the
news outlets except Fox News? Special Report received a score to the
left of the average member of Congress. Moreover, by one of our
measures all but three of these media outlets (Special Report, the
Drudge Report, and ABC?s World News Tonight) were closer to the
average Democrat in Congress than to the median member of the House
of Representatives. One of our measures found that the Drudge
Report is the most centrist of all media outlets in our sample. Our
other measure found that Fox News? Special Report is the most
centrist. These findings refer strictly to the news stories of the
outlets. That is, we omitted editorials, book reviews, and letters
to the editor from our sample. "

Doug McDonald