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Noted by the Readership Institute
Monday, June 23, 2008

Economic bias in the news

One of the early lessons we learned from RI's Impact study was that including ordinary people in the newspaper is linked to higher readership of same paper. Not to mention, it's good journalism. But, as The Center for American Progress reports, ordinary people are missing from one important type of news: business coverage. "On a range of economic issues, the perspective of workers is largely missing from media coverage, while the views of business are frequently presented."

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