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Howard Kurtz today spends most of his column going after Fox News, which a new study by the K Street-based Project for Excellence in Journalism has found is more consistently biased than any other channel. While the report says that Fox was "measurably" more biased overall, a specific study of Iraq War coverage found the anchor or reporter offering an opinion in as much as 7 out of 10 stories. By comparison, MSNBC opinions clocked in at about 29 percent of stories and only about 2 percent on CNN. In one of those understatements that make reading dry 617-page reports a pleasure, the authors say, "Those findings seem to challenge Fox's promotional marketing, particularly its slogan, 'We Report. You Decide.'" The findings were just one part of the organization's massive "State of the News Media 2005" report, out officially today. It also got coverage today in E&P. On the study's other amusing findings? CBS was 50 percent more likely than NBC and twice as likely as ABC to air reports on disasters and other unexpected events. So it wasn't really our imagination that Dan Rather always seemed to end up in the middle of a hurricane. UPDATE: For more on the PEJ study, check out our cousin site TVNewser.
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