Biased Media Coverage Of Health Care Court Decisions

   The far-right and those other conservative groups are always harping about how biased the media is towards them when it comes to coverage of issues. The “ liberal media “ is what the call most mainstream organizations. But…

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by Barbara Morrill

Wed Feb 02, 2011

Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law last March, four federal courts have handed down decisions on its constitutionality, with two finding in favor of the law, and two striking down part or all of it.

On Tuesday, Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly compared the coverage those four decisions have received in the traditional media, and not surprisingly:

... the coverage discrepancy is overwhelming. One of the two pro-reform rulings didn't even make the Washington Post's A section at all. In literally every instance, the Republican-friendly rulings generated more coverage, with better placement, and longer stories than the rulings preferred by Democrats.

And using Benen's numbers, here's a chart that shows just how glaring that discrepancy is.

Obviously a case of that liberal media bias we keep hearing about.

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