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Is Media Fairness a Thing of the Past?

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    Media Research Center analyzes coverage of Occupy Wall Street vs. Tea Party

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I'll take -- I have come to the conclusion that there will never be media fairness in the country again it's -- It's just too much money to be made in the partisan precincts now I base my opinion on the decline of hard news reporting and here's a great example.

How the media coverage the Tea Party as opposed to the occupy Wall Street folks to any several Washington Tim Graham from the Media Research Center.

A conservative group which recently did a study comparing network news coverage of the Tea Party in the occupy Wall Street guys.

What's -- headline him.

Well there's a dramatic amount of early coverage here in comparison of the Tea Party that we have seen in the first eleven days of these protests.

33 stories on the morning and evening shows and ABC CBS and NBC which would average out to basically.

Each network having a story every day.

You can look at the Tea Party back in 2009.

We counted thirteen stories in the entire year of 2009.

So that would be about four stories per network.

All yearlong.

All right sold for summaries in.

This movement occupy Wall Street has been embraced by the Big Three network news broadcasts.

I think it might have to do with video action.

Nothing else going -- Do you see it as a some kind had.

Ideological.

Play.

It's absolutely an ideological thing and -- is that.

The -- you know they are looking at this to say there's an uprising in the country that we have a growing protest movement.

They're trying to sort of inject some energy on the left.

And you know if you look at the first stories in the Tea Party -- -- state 2009 it was like.

This isn't gonna go anywhere this is the corporate Astroturf I mean they -- denouncing it from the get go.

Here was much different the tone was overwhelmingly positive you count the sound bytes are Geoff Dickens count of the sound bytes.

And 93%.

Of them were positive they were protesters and they were people saying this was a wonderful thing.

It there really is at some point a question as to whether this is just.

Advertising instead of new.

All right so whether that -- put Tea Party was -- -- some precincts on network news is racist.

Is destructive.

-- after that in little gauntlet saying with the congressman walked in and who were being shouted at Bryant that.

While it would was branded as such by the network is -- is any doubt about that.

All right this movement even know 34% of it according -- New York magazine thinks America is as bad as al-Qaeda.

And you know that was a survey that's a very liberal magazine New York -- This movement is being spun.

As a good whole some.

Bob and demonstration of legitimate dissent.

Well not only that they're not really being described as ideological all you go looking and we are if -- believe we found two or three occasions in these 33 stories where they'd reduce even described as liberals.

You know this is the problem we have is that and they've done this with protests for the whole twenty years I've been on this -- they do not.

Describe -- left wing radical protesters.

As ideological and anyway they're just hasn't been.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Into what goes on after dark into drug use and say Al any of that did you see any and a not anything that would be negative like let's defecated on police cars let's say anti Semitic things.

Let's.

Shout down the staffers to black members of congress -- -- these sorts of stories where He would say wow that looks bad for them.

That just they've been -- -- straight out all right now whitewash is an interesting word has it been any mention.

That most of these protesters are white very few blocks.

Now and I think that you don't -- it was the Tea Party that got out without bad -- and a point that was and that's that.

Exactly -- whole thing was and and the reporters these so called objective reporters would say.

Many say that this is distillate comfort with a black president I mean they and they just stated that like with the facts.

Thanks very much we appreciate it we come right back --

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