Almost exactly a year ago, liberal talk show host Keith Olbermann went on a rant about the right-wing bias in the media. "There is no liberal media," he said. "The media which is, after all, owned by corporations naturally leans to the right. Corporations, by definition, lean to the right, towards the status quo."
Conservatives scoffed at the notion. But maybe Olbermann has a point.
After all, when it comes to conservatives, reporters can't seem to get enough of them.
Indeed, a Pew Research Center survey found that of the top 10 most-covered candidates in the midterm elections, conservatives held the top three spots.
Here's more evidence. I asked AOL's Relegence team, which tracks more than 30,000 news sites on the Web, to compare coverage of comparable liberals and conservatives over the past 12 months.
The results are stark. Conservatives were featured in vastly more stories.
Here are three illustrative examples.
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