One way is to watch them over a long period of time... say on and off for 20 years. A second way is to review studies done on the media, say by
UCLA.
Also --- here's the actual study materials not just the write up:
A Measure of Media Bias
According to you? Of course I do.
Hold on... what studies? Source? Until you provide that --- the rest of this train of thought and according to you, errors --- is YOUR study based on your opinion.
Again... source?
I selected large market newspapers primarily in NFL cities which have the largest circulations. According to the UCLA study (which I did source btw)
The Post is owned by Murdoch which is why your saying it's conservative - and that may be. The Tribune - probably because Obama was the first Democrat the paper ever endorsed for President of which one issue doesn't make the entire paper "conservative".
The LA Times? Again - my source:
No one outside of Missouri or Kansas ever heard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch --- who has a
circulation of about 200,000.
Source?
Which is why I picked the largest markets with the largest circulations --- the NY Times for example is delivered nationally to not only airports or supermarkets - but to individuals by subscription. Granted the WSJ is probably larger - but again, not conservative.
Newsmax circulation is a paltry 130,000, while the "not small" Weekly Standard is 81,000. They're not only small... they're VERY small.
My link source identifies US News and World Report as slightly less liberal than Joe Liebermann. What that means is, the ADA score of an average citizen is 50.6, the average ADA score of a Congressional liberal is 84.5. US News and World Report scored at 65.8 - which makes it slightly liberal to the average citizen (higher score is more liberal, lower score is more conservative). I'd be willing to say it's more "centrist" but no where near conservative.
I don't catagorize Runners World or for that matter, Earth Word Digest. According to the study posted --- Time is about the same as US News and World Report - with a score of 65.4, Newsweek is 66.3.
That would be interesting coming from a self described liberal. Obviously what a liberal finds to be "conservative" and what a conservative finds conservative are to vastly different things. What you see as a conservative publication, I see more as a centrist publication with a mix of both... funny... the UCLA study sorta confirms my view on that.
The Tribune does in fact have a larger paid subscriber base than the Sun-Times, and I cannot say one way or the other if it is conservative or not. The magazines however - you were way off - they're very small in the paid subscriber base though with Obama now in office and a full Democratic majority in Congress - I'm sure they saw a bump. I read Newsweek, Politics Magazine, USA Today, my local newspaper (NJ), and I go through news sources from Drudge, CNN Headline News, Google News and Fox News/Business. I also check out CNBC and watch MSNBC Morning Joe, and when I sometimes like watching O'Reilly and when I can stomach it - Hardball on MSNBC, though in small amounts.
My thought was they went off the air in December 2009 which was only about 6 months ago. I guess I was thinking of Sirius Left "young turks" show, which had Malloy and the other guy from Air America. My mistake.
QFT.
I think if you review the UCLA media study which was done over a period of time (years), and review the methodology, there are some clear leanings. The WSJ for example is as liberal leaning as the NY Times according to the study - while the Washington Times clearly was leaning conservative.