Proof: Fox News Censors Ron Paul
Judge for yourself!
Read the full article and view statistical tables: http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/articles/ron-paul-silenced-by-fox-news.html
. . . Anyways, we have seen overwhelming complaints by Ron Paul supporters upset at news coverage in which they feel their candidate has been “silenced” when he should not be. Is that a valid complaint? Should the absence of a reference to a candidate be a sign of unfairness?
Well we decided to look into this. So what we did was a raw Google search of how many times each of the Republican candidates have been mentioned on some of the popular news media. . . .
. . . We understand that it is absurd to think that every candidate should be mentioned in exactly the same frequency everyone else . . .
. . . But I think it would be a relatively fair comparison to bundle up the candidates into two pools; the top 3 (Giuliani, Romney, McCain) and bottom tier and compare the frequencies with which the bundles are referred to. The two bundles should at least be close . . .
. . . As we can see from the above table, the “fairest” coverages are from NYTimes, CBS News, and USAToday. Even though LA Times had a high ratio, if you were to exclude Rudy Giuliani from the group; it is actually pretty fair. The biggest culprit of fairness is Fox News. They refer to the top 3 candidates almost 5 times more than they refer to any of the other candidates. Mitt Romney was referenced 13,000 times on the FoxNews.com domain while Ron Paul has only been referenced 248 times. So for every 52.4 articles on Mitt Romney, there will only be one article on Ron Paul. That is absurd. On no other news source is the disparity as large as it is on Fox News. . .
! . . . That’s all I have to say . . . !
POST WRITTEN (with the exception of quotations) BY DENNIS BERLIN–WWW.RONPAULBEARER.COM
