The Associated Press on Wednesday night distributed a story on the MRC’s new study on how the ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows have devoted much more time this year to Democratic than Republican candidates for President. In “Study: Democrats Get More A.M. Airtime,” the AP’s David Bauder confronted network producers with the findings and they, naturally, denied any bias: “Network news executives rejected any suggestion of bias, and said they have a considerably harder time getting Republican candidates to appear on their shows.

That, however, does not explain the bias in how the networks pushed both parties from the left. The study discovered: “Of the substantive questions that could be categorized as reflecting a political agenda, more than two-thirds (69%) of the questions to Democrats reflected a liberal premise, and more than four-fifths (82%) of the questions to Republicans came from the same perspective.” Full Piece