We all know the media is in the tank for Obama and has had a liberal bias for decades, but a new study on the 2012 presidential election has provided some unique quantifiable results
Using natural language processing and artificial intelligence, Big Data & Society analyzed the words in over 130,000 stories by over 700 news outlets in the 2012 election campaign and found further evidence of media bias against Mitt Romney and Republicans and for President Obama and Democrats.
According to the Washington Examiner:
The survey used a technical language processing analysis to filter all the stories and found that Obama was portrayed as an attack dog and Romney on defense. Key was Obama’s ability to “own” the economic message despite Romney’s repeated assaults and the public’s general view that the GOP handles the economy better.
“Overall, media reporting contained more frequently positive statements about the Democrats than the Republicans. Overall, the Republicans were more frequently the object of negative statements,” wrote the study authors. Their conclusion: “The Republican Party is the most divisive subject in the campaign, and is portrayed in a more negative fashion than the Democrats.”
So, there you have it. According to human AND artificial intelligence, the media has a liberal bias.
