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Motivation
Among reporters, democrats heavily outnumber republicans
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The claim is that reporters put personal bias and point of view aside when reporting
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Let's do a sanity check of those claims
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Approach
Count number of times political right is referred to as "far" or "extreme" vs. political left
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Intuition: given competitiveness of elections, a reporter taking a neutral position would see roughly equal amounts of extremism
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Results
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News outletPercentage of political references to "extreme" or "far" that refer to political right
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More left-leaning
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Time93%
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Huffington Post93%
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Google news91%
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LA Times89%
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USA today82%
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New York Times79%
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Yahoo79%
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NPR79%
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CNN70%
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Balanced news outlet50%
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Fox34%
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More right-leaning
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Mean79%
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Median80%
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References to the political right as "extreme" or "far" are 4 times more likely than such references to the left
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