The Media Research Center is still trying to quash a media-bias study that contradicts its right-wing agenda.
In an April 25 NewsBusters post, Ken Shepherd denounced a Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism arguing that President Obama has actually received more negative news coverage this political season than the Republican presidential primary contenders, insisting that “the data examined by the study are fundamentally flawed and hence worthless to arrive at a conclusion about the media’s judgments of the candidates.” The rest of Shepherd’s post is a copy-and-paste of a Rich Noyes post attacking the study.
But as we noted, the MRC attacking the Pew study for purportedly faulty methodology is laughable given the shoddy state of the MRC’s own research methodology, which is designed to advance a political agenda around a pre-existing narrative rather than following where the data actually leads.
The “liberal media bias” the MRC tends to treat as axiomatic is actually driven by the MRC’s own deliberately skewed research, as we’ve documented.