September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

media organizations were Bush’s greatest allies.” [Democracy, General Electric Style, David Podvin
and Carolyn Kay, October 23, 2001]
The piece of information that makes the Project for Excellence study so intriguing is that
Bush was being identified in more positive stories than Gore, even when the press corp in
general is consistently more liberal than conservative.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters
tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the
study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."
"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so,
there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co-author
Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar. …Of the 20 major media
outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the Los
Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street
Journal. Only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of
the average U.S. voter. [Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist, Meg Sullivan, December
14, 2005]
The only valid explanation of a liberal press favoring Bush is ‘pressure’ from
management, a conclusion that other research appears to validate. That same
inexplicable behavior was experienced again shortly after the election, when eight major
newspapers abandoned their pledge to the American public:
“On January 9, 2001, eight media organizations announced their intention to form the Consortium that
would examine and classify the votes in the Florida presidential election. The eight news organizations
were The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dow Jones and Company (The Wall Street
Journal), the Associated Press, The Tribune Company (The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago
Tribune, among others), The Palm Beach Post, The St. Petersburg Times, and CNN (which later
dropped out).
The Consortium sought to gain credibility for the integrity of its recount by hiring the not-for-profit
National Opinion Research Center to perform the actual ballot handling tasks and to compile the
relevant information. NORC was assigned to provide the raw data to each of the members of the
Consortium. It would then be up to the individual media outlets to decide how they would interpret and
report the data to the American people. ….As for what will happen next, the executive said, “Once the
dominant pro-Gore trend became apparent, the Consortium was never going to release the results; the
pressure from the big money boys was too great. Terrorism just provided a better excuse for
withholding the information than the ‘technical difficulties’ stalling tactic that was otherwise going to
be used. The Consortium is determined to make sure that the original results of their recount will never
see the light of day.” [The Media Cover-Up of the Gore Victory Part One: Reliable Source Reveals the
Cover-Up, David Podvin, Carolyn Kay]
The media en masse again would support Bush when the first a major piece of news
critical of Bush was made available, and the major media companies pretended the news
did not exist.
“L.A. Weekly has learned that CBS, NBC and ABC all refused Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD advertising
during any of the networks’ news programming. Executives at Sony Pictures, the distributor of the
movie for the home-entertainment market, were stunned.” [When Might Turns Right - Golly GE, Why
Big Media is Pro-Bush, Nikki Finke, LA Weekly, October 1 - 7, 2004]
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