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Fabius Maximushttp://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/media/ [Fabius Maximus] Maybe they hate America, or slant the news by “if the economy bleeds, it leads.” This post reports on a small test, examining the economic reporting of three major newspapers in search of media bias.

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