{"id":3732,"date":"2005-03-14T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3732.html"},"modified":"2005-03-14T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T16:29:14","slug":"they-decide-you-concur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/they-decide-you-concur\/","title":{"rendered":"They decide, you concur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raise your hand if you&#8217;re surprised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A32631-2005Mar13.html\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, 29 percent of the war reports on MSNBC and 2 percent of those on CNN included the journalists&#8217; own views.<\/p>\n<p>These findings &#8212; the figures were similar for coverage of other stories &#8212; &#8220;seem to challenge&#8221; Fox&#8217;s slogan of &#8220;we report, you decide,&#8221; says the Project for Excellence in Journalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Seem to challenge<\/i>? How terribly polite.<\/p>\n<p>One other tidbit jumped out at me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for the most popular prime-time shows, nearly every story &#8212; 97 percent &#8212; contained opinion on Fox&#8217;s &#8220;O&#8217;Reilly Factor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this kind of hard to believe. A whopping three percent of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s stories were free of opinion? How could he let that happen? Maybe he was off those days and his replacement dropped the ball.<\/p>\n<p>One has to assume O&#8217;Reilly will be flirting with 100% by next year&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raise your hand if you&#8217;re surprised by this one. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}