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by MisterBastahrd 4792 days ago
You might be able to use indexing to show potential bias. If you have access to the data, how often do the major news networks use the word "Obama" versus "President" over the course of the day? Say... Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC.
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We actually had a very interesting page up for this in the run up to the 2012 election, comparing and graphing mentions of Obama and Romney on each network along with sentiment analysis of what they said about them.

The page has since been taken down but here are two of our blog posts about the analysis.

* http://blog.boxfish.com/post/30997338037/obama-vs-romney-who... * http://blog.boxfish.com/post/32880728776/tvs-thoughts-on-our...