Want to know the difference between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal?

Check out their respective takes on President Obama's "State of the Union" address.

"President Obama Will Seek to Reduce Taxes for Middle Class" 

vs.

"Obama to propose tax increases on investments, inherited property"

If it bleeds...

The media has an inherent bias. Not, it’s not a liberal bias—it’s a bloodthirsty one. For example, Danny Hayes writes that the slaughter of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary shooting should still be on front pages and lead stories. After all, “nothing that has happened in Washington in the last seven months has been more horrifying, tragic, or gripping than what took place” in Newtown.

The media’s interest in policy debates generally lasts only as long as politicians are willing to spar in front of the cameras. And although Democrats have pledged to continue pursuing stricter gun laws, the prospects for meaningful legislation – and thus a meaningful battle – appear uncertain. 

Gun control advocates have by no means given up. Giffords, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a coalition of allies are continuing their efforts to overcome Republican and NRA opposition to stricter gun laws. 

But in the near term, they’re unlikely to get much help from the media. Once the Senate gun control bill died in April, so did the story.

President Obama gave the first major address about climate change EVER from an American president.

Via.

Studies show that for Fox News Viewers, "the more you watch, the more you think you know is actually false."

In Dollarcracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America, John Nichols writes:

In November 2011, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll examined how New Jerseyans watched television news, and the poll concluded that “some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.” 

In some surveys, to be accurate, Fox News does not rank at rock bottom in terms of audience knowledge. But on balance, it is the clown dunce of TV news. No other network ever comes close to getting the sort of assessment Fox News received from World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland, in 2010. As one reporter summarized it, PIPA conducted a “survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. 

What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation. So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false.” As Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson concluded in their study of the Tea Party, “Fox News makes viewers both more conservative and less informed.” What may be most revealing is that there is no evidence that this finding bothers the management of Fox News in the least.