‘Tis the Season for Post-Christmas Bias at the New York Times

Does the New York Times let bias creep into its post-Christmas reports on the shopping season just completed?

Smart-aleck answer: Is Maureen Dowd obsessed with Dick Cheney? (His name appears in 295 of her columns, all but four appearing during the last 7-plus years. That would be almost 40 Cheney inclusions per year, probably close to half the number of columns she has written during that time.)

After reviewing 17 years of those reports, the answer is a definitive “Yes.”

For each year from 1991 through 2007.lire la suite

Lien du post: http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/26/reviewing-17-years-of-ny-times-post-christmas-retail-sales-reports/

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