Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!nrh From: nrh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <2017@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 01:52:15 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.2017 Posted: Sat Mar 2 01:52:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:08:01 EST Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:whuxl:-49800:inmet:7800322:177600:524 Nf-From: inmet!nrh Mar 1 01:21:00 1985 Tim -- concluding the media are biased because 70% of newspapers came out for Ronald Reagan is going a little far -- roughly 59% of the popular vote was for Reagan, and if you break it down by districts -- as with the newspaper reading areas or electoral college voting, you get an even larger percentage for Reagan. I very much doubt that showing that the newspapers are roughly in accord with the populace shows them to be especially biased. I do agree that the press partakes of the biases of the people around them.