Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Salon.com give us The official Reagan Week media Scorecard

**Space saving done by Mr. Mooch. Now, on with the multiple Reagasms....

According to the Nexis electronic database, looking for stories, columns or TV transcripts that contained at least six mentions of the former president during the week (7 days) that followed his death on June 5, we found:

Boston Globe--33 items
Dallas Morning News--50
New York Times--59
St. Louis Post-Dispatch--62
Washington Times--65
Chicago Tribune--71
Los Angeles Times--72
USA Today--88 items (no weekend publication)
The Washington Post--108 items
(supposedly liberal) National Public Radio --105 segments
Fox News--105 (But researchers beware, Fox traditionally does not list all of its transcripts with Nexis, so its number was likely much higher.)
NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC --125 segments.
CNN--180(!)

Just imagine what the Reagan coverage would have looked like if the press didn’t have a liberal bias.


*Ahem* heh.

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