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    • Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour

      Posted by Billbar

      The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS's flagship news program, touts its "signature style—low-key, evenhanded, inclusive of all perspectives"; Corporation for Public Broadcasting ombud Ken Bode called it "the mother ship of balance." But a new FAIR study finds that the NewsHour fails to provide either balance or diversity of perspectives—or a true public-minded alternative to its corporate competition. Among partisan sources, Republicans outnumbered Democrats on the NewsHour by 2-to-1 (66 percent vs. 33 percent). Only one representative of a third party appeared during the study period.

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    nathalie comments on:

    Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour

    Of COURSE the show has more Rs than Ds—they control the government, for heaven’s sake!

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    8:12 am 10/14/06
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    nathalie comments on:

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    8:10 am 10/14/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour

    This is the only TV news show I watch and I completely agree that it’s biased, but I can’t abide the alternatives.

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    6:06 am 10/07/06
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