CJR can't prove its bias against cable news, advertises its intellectual snobbery anyway:
"Our hypothesis: If one were to check in on news channels MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News once an hour, for 16 hours, starting from 6:08 am on Tuesday, June 21, to 10 pm or so that night, one or another of Cable's Big Three would be covering Natalee Holloway's disappearance or Michael Jackson's recent acquittal every time we checked in.......Using this methodology, we could not prove the Jackson-Holloway theory."
CJR sums up:
"...mentions of the missing white girl in Aruba, Natalee Holloway, and the missing white boy in Utah, Brennan Hawkins, got more airtime -- by three to two -- than any combination of the Edgar Ray Killen verdict, the Bolton confirmation, or Bush's visit with the Prime Minister of Vietnam...."
May I suggest a new slogan for the Columbia Journalism Review? "CJR: Not every death matters, so we'll tell you which ones to cover."
