Posts Tagged objectivity

Policy and Polarization

Numbers cruncher Nate Silver took a look at the recent New York Times poll of people who consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement, and noted that media habits were the most salient predictor of such support. According to Silver, “Tea-partiers are disproportionately attached to, and perhaps influenced by, FOX News. And they are [...]

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Journalism’s Responsibility?

In a recent blog post at Political Animal, Steve Benen addressed the decision of the Washington Post to run an op-ed on climate change written (okay, probably ghost-written, since she’s given no hint that she’s familiar with the English language) by Sarah Palin. The problem isn’t just that the paper published another right-wing piece from [...]

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