Yes Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, But THERE IS NO LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS

"More recently, Tim Groseclose of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford and Jeff Milyo of the University of Chicago published "A Measure of Media Bias." They ingeniously counted the number of times a news outlet quoted certain think tanks and compared this with the number of times members of Congress cited the same think tanks when speaking from the floor.
Comparing the citation patterns enabled them to construct an ADA (Americans for Democratic Action) score for each media outlet. They found that the "Fox News Special Report" was the only right-of-center news outlet in their sample, while the "CBS Evening News" was the most liberal, followed by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, "NBC Nightly News" and ABC's "World News Tonight."
More surprising was the astonishing degree to which the mainstream press was liberal. Using the median ADA rating of the 435 members of the House of Representatives as the most appropriate definition of a centrist voter in America, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, USA Today and "CBS Evening News" are not just liberal. Their ratings are much closer to the Democrats' average ADA rating in Congress than they were to the center, and miles from the Republicans' average rating." more

"Need more proof? By an overwhelming 12-to-1 ratio, Washington reporters favored Bill Clinton, and they supported John Kerry by the same lopsided 12-to-1 ratio, according to an informal survey by a New York Times reporter.
The media masters have been caught red-handed in their subtle manipulation of public opinion toward their personal beliefs and preferences. In the last three days, we have presented compelling evidence from six comprehensive studies.
Edith Efron's prodigious 1972 book "The News Twisters" analyzed pre-election network news coverage for use of positive and negative words. Maura Clancy and Michael Robinson recorded and rated positive and negative spin comments before the 1984 election (10-to-1 against Ronald Reagan).
A 1983 survey by the Institute For Applied Economics showed nearly 95% of economic statistics were positive, yet 86% were reported negatively. Two Pew Research studies looked at journalists' identification with liberal and conservative labels and their views of political leaders.
And the brilliant 2003 study "A Measure of Media Bias" by Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo scientifically documented that the national media slants your news left, with CBS and the New York Times leading the parade.
Consider this evidence of leading media figures' increasingly cozy ties to the left: MSNBC's Chris Matthews was a Jimmy Carter speechwriter and top aide to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill. NBC's Tim Russert was a political adviser to Democratic Sen. Patrick Moynihan and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. ABC's Jeff Greenfield was a speechwriter for Sen. Robert Kennedy. PBS' Bill Moyers was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary. ABC's George Stephanopoulos was Clinton's strategist and communications director.
There's more: Tom Johnson, former president of CNN, was special assistant to President Johnson. CBS' Lesley Stahl once worked for New York Mayor John Lindsay. CBS News opinion columnist Dotty Lynch was the Democratic National Committee's polling director in 1981-82. David Burke, Ted Kennedy's chief of staff for six years, in 1988 became president of CBS for two years and later returned to Kennedy as a strategy adviser. Former NPR President Delano Lewis was chief campaign fundraiser for Washington Mayor Marion Barry.
The list from the Media Research Center data goes on until you get a whopping 322 Democrats vs. 82 Republicans." more

"By far, the most insidious practice of the nearly 90% liberal-controlled national media is how they select which stories and facts to cover and promote, and the special slant they give to each story. More important are the stories they choose not to cover and which facts they omit because they don't support their story angle or political objectives.
When Sandy Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, and former Ambassador Joe Wilson, whose wife was a CIA operative, unleashed their relentless attacks on President Bush two years ago, they got nonstop coverage on national TV. Wilson got 40 stories on NBC, 30 on CBS, 18 on ABC, 96 in the Washington Post, 70 in the New York Times and 48 in the Los Angeles Times, according to a database search by Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz.
John Kerry selected Berger and Wilson to be among his top foreign policy advisers on America's national security.
Wilson claimed that intelligence about Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium from Niger was based on forged documents because the names and dates were wrong, that his CIA wife did not recommend him for the Niger assignment, and that Bush knowingly misled the country about Saddam Hussein seeking uranium from Africa.
Later, a Senate Intelligence Committee looking into the claims confronted Wilson. Specifically, the committee asked him how he could say intelligence documents from Niger were forged, when he had never actually seen them. As it turns out, they weren't put in U.S. hands until eight months after he visited Niger.
Wilson had to admit he, in effect, lied. He also lied about his own report. Rather than debunking intelligence about supposed uranium sales to Iraq, his report actually supported the case for most intelligence, according to the Washington Post.
The Senate report further stated, based on CIA testimony and a Feb. 12, 2002, memo from Wilson's wife to the Counterproliferation Division, that his wife had definitely recommended Wilson for the assignment. British and European intelligence, meanwhile, confirmed illicit trade in uranium from Niger.
So it was proved Wilson lied on four vital points. Bush had stated the intelligence facts honestly and correctly. The New York Times had to run a story titled "Intelligence Backs Claim Iraq Tried To Buy Uranium."
So what's the point? The truthful story was buried and quickly forgotten. In the New York Times, it was covered three times and quickly forgotten, whereas it appears the Times carried Wilson's phony, later discredited, story 70 times. Is this ethical, honest coverage, or blatant, unbalanced liberal bias? " more