As if anyone needed more proof that MSNBC has a strong Democratic and left-wing bias, along comes a new study by the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism which shows that MSNBC has been far more negative in its coverage of Mitt Romney than Fox News has of President Obama.
From August 27 through October 21 of this year, 71 percent of MSNBCs coverage of Mitt Romney was negative compared to just three percent that was positive, for a ratio of nearly 24-to-1. By comparison, Fox News reported negatively about President Obama 46 percent of the time, versus eight percent positively, for a ratio of 8-t0-1. In other words, Fox News was nearly three times more positive towards Obama than MSNBC was towards Romn
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