CULTURE DIGEST: UCLA study says major media outlets are liberal;
Christian colleges enjoy growth spurt
Dec 28, 2005
By Erin Curry Roach
Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A first-of-its-kind look at media bias, which included comparing news stories to congressional speeches, revealed that coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media but that almost all major media outlets are liberal.

While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times, the study found, according to a Dec. 14 news release by the University of California-Los Angeles, which conducted the research. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left.

The study, which appears in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly, the news release said. The rest