Another Dubious “Study” From Media Matters
A July 20, 2006, post from MMatters blares, "Third time’s not the charm: Sunday-morning talk shows still imbalanced."
MMatters dubiously claims that Republicans and conservatives outnumbered Democrats and progressives from April to June of 2006 during guest appearances on ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press.
MMatters posts colorful graphs to try to support their claim. But there is one glaring omission.
Where is the complete list of guests? Media Matters doesn’t provide one! Who is a "conservative"? Who is "neutral"?
The reader is simply left to trust Media Matters. This, of course, doesn’t work. This site has already documented how Media Matters inaccurately labels talk-show guests (click the link). Media Matters has been caught red-handed labeling liberal guests as "neutral" and neutrals as "conservatives." Needless to say, the veracity of that so-called study has been shredded. One can readily conclude that MMatters doctors their labeling to get their desired results.
Given Media Matters’ dishonest track record, and given that MMatters does not provide a list of guests, and their labels, one can only conclude that MMFA is again misleading their readers.
