An Opinionated Network

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:24:51 -0700
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Subject: An Opinionated Network

An Opinionated Network

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 14, 2005; 7:05 AM

In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on
Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists
reporting them, a new study says.

By contrast, 29 percent of the war reports on MSNBC and 2 percent
of those on CNN included the journalists' own views.

These findings -- the figures were similar for coverage of other
stories -- "seem to challenge" Fox's slogan of "we report, you
decide," says the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

In a 617-page report, the group also found that "Fox is more deeply
sourced than its rivals," while CNN is "the least transparent about
its sources of the three cable channels, but more likely to present
multiple points of view."

The project defines opinion as views that are not attributed to others.

Full text at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33008-2005Mar14?language=printer


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