There is not a single word in that study that says anything about whether the reporting on those outlets is biased one way or the other. The entire study is about how the audiences of those outlets behave. My response to your previous post was that the study had exactly zero to do with the actual reporting by those outlets. If you can show me otherwise, bring it.
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The study takes people that view themselves in 5 distinct categories. Very left, moderate left, middle, moderate right, and far right. It asks them what their view is of each news network. Those on on the far left had a untrustworthy view of Fox and like far right programming. The far right distrusted most news outlets to the far left. Those in the moderate categories and middle took exception with far right and far left media but most of the mainstream media was fine including regular old Fox news. If that’s not a measure of how the general public perception of bias I don’t know what is.
The fact that you take so much exception with news media on the right probably means you really probably are in the far left category. You might not view yourself as far left but relative to the general US population you probably are. That’s probably why you and some of the other posters see this asymmetrical bias you like to claim. You see yourself as the middle but don’t realize that you’re actually on the far left compared to the general population.
I view myself as pretty middle moderate left on social issue, but far right on fiscal issues, but know know maybe I really am moderately right on social issues compared to the general population. How do I quantify that, since it’s a measure that relative to everyone else.
