{"id":560,"date":"2002-05-09T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2002-05-09T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/05\/deceptive-labeling\/"},"modified":"2002-05-09T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2002-05-09T08:04:07","slug":"deceptive-labeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/09\/deceptive-labeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceptive labeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Edward Boyd at zonitics.com<\/a> has done a follow-up on the Nunberg study alleging that Bernard Goldberg was wrong about media labeling of politicians, and finds Goldberg was right and Nunberg wrong. Boyd corrected Nunberg’s denominator and looked for labeling on a story-by-story basis, concluding:<\/p>\n

\nOverall – and subject to some interpretation – conservatives were 30% more likely to be labeled than liberals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s unlikely that liberal media outlets who’ve touted Nunberg’s claim will issue retractions, since they’re busy labeling slain Dutch politician a right-wing extremist<\/a> and covering-up the similarity between Al Gore’s views on the environment with those of confessed pipe-bomber Luke Helder<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Helder, an art student from Minnesota…sent a rambling letter to the University of Wisconsin student newspaper expressing his radical environmental views and wish to legalize marijuana. Sounding like Al Gore or John Kerry, he whines that “the icebergs are melting, and precious earth is heating up.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Big Lie – it’s everywhere you want to be.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Edward Boyd at zonitics.com has done a follow-up on the Nunberg study alleging that Bernard Goldberg was wrong about media labeling of politicians, and finds Goldberg was right and Nunberg wrong. Boyd corrected Nunberg’s denominator and looked for labeling on a story-by-story basis, concluding: Overall – and subject to some interpretation – conservatives were … Continue reading “Deceptive labeling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-92","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}