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Shocker: Journalists read lefty blogs, not righty blogs

In related late-breaking news, water is wet.  Excerpt:

Davis also queried more than 200 journalists to learn how they use blog content in their coverage of political news. Most journalists were aware of influential blogs on both sides of the political spectrum, such as Daily Kos and Talking Points on the left and Michelle Malkin and Instapundit on the right. Despite equal awareness, journalists spend more time reading posts in the liberal blogosphere.

For example, more journalists know about Michelle Malkin than Talking Points. Yet twice as many journalists actually read Talking Points than read Michelle Malkin.

“When journalists take story ideas from blogs, those ideas naturally will come from blogs they read,” Davis said. “These reading patterns suggest journalists may be getting primarily one view of the blogosphere.”

But I’m sure that none of this trolling of the moonbatosphere in any way, shape, form, or fashion influences or is reflected in their reporting.  Nope…no liberal media bias!

May 14, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | media bias