This is news? Maybe to those in denial over MSM bias. But Rather's little stunt should have served as a slap in the face for anyone still hanging on to that perspective.

Some highlights:

"U.S. media coverage of last year's election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry, according to a study released Monday. The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator."

"The three network nightly newscasts and public broadcaster PBS tended to be more negative than positive, while Fox News was twice as likely to be positive as negative."

Public perceptions of MSM outlets, however, is also extremely low and few people believed that the news coverage had much influence on the election's outcome.

"It may be that the expectations of the press have sunk enough that they will not sink much further. People are not dismayed by disappointments in the press. They expect them," the authors of the report said.

In other news, Dan Rather maintains his belief that the documents related to the Bush TANG story, while questionable in authenticity, are nonetheless accurate.

M'kay.

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