Mea Culpa

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You know me... If I'm wrong about something, I'll come out and say so. In the past, I've claimed the media in general is biased to the left, and been a defender of FOX News as fair and balanced, but a study I've just seen from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism now makes me now doubt that assertion

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According to the study their methodology included the following:

Daytime

Rotate, coding two out of three 30-minute daytime slots each day (60 minutes a day)

Prime Time

Three 30-minute segments for Fox (90 minutes)
Three 30-minute segments for CNN (90 minutes)
Two 30-minute segments for MSNBC (60 minutes)

The Index rotates among all programming from 6 to 11 p.m. that was focused on general news events of the day excluding CNN’s Larry King Live and Fox’s Greta Van Susteren.

Below is the current list of evening cable programs included in our sample as of November 2008.

CNN Fox MSNBC
6 p.m Situation Room Special Report w/Brit Hume 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
7 p.m Lou Dobbs Tonight Fox Report w/ Shephard Smith Hardball
8 p.m. Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull The O'Reilly Factor Countdown w/Keith Olbermann
9 p.m. ------ Hannity & Colmes The Rachel Maddow Show
10 p.m. Anderson Cooper 360 ------ ------

This results in 5 hours of cable programming each day (including daytime).