Academic study finds ABC TV news slanted towards Coalition

A study by academic economists Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh has concluded that ABC TV news leans towards the Coalition while Radio National is even handed.  The full text of the article is available at http://andrewleigh.com/?p=2265 .

They comment:

Across 27 media outlets, we find only two that stand out as partisan in either direction. Using our first approach, only ABC TV appears slanted (towards the Coalition – sorry, Mr Costello). And using the second and third approaches, only The Age appears slanted (towards Labor). On the whole, Australian journalists seem a centrist bunch; their editors a little less so.