Professional Journalism is Dead

I saw the William Jefferson (not Clinton!) bribery scheme go across the news wire and I thought I'd test a theory: NY Times vs. FoxNews. Who is the most biased?

So I used Democrat Jefferson (corruption) and Republican Mark Sanford (gubernatorial unfaithfulness) to see which news source most defamed the name of their presumed opposition party via negative association. I just randomly picked articles that I thought discussed the main issue based on their titles (maybe not the best process). I didn't hand pick to support my theory.

NY Times:

• The word 'Democrat' appears once in this article on Jefferson.
• The word 'Republican appears 5 times in this article on Sanford.

FoxNews:

• The word 'Democrat' appears 9 times in this article on Jefferson.
• The word 'Republican appears 3 times in this article on Sanford.

NYT has a higher bias ratio of 5:1. FoxNews has a higher difference (6) when the incidents are subtracted. Whether we want to count the difference or look at the ratio, it's biased either way.

It's all silly though........

Oh! On a non-biased note, I was glad to see William Jefferson (Clinton this time) bring those reporters back from North Korea. Maybe they were getting into stuff they shouldn't but if so, they're real sorry and won't do it again. Just glad they're back with their families.