The Drudge Report proudly links to a study on the media which shows that Drudge is the most centrist of all the major media outlets.

What's unique about the study is that it defines liberal/conservative based on how many times liberal or conservative "think tanks" are sourced. Then, instead of defining the think tanks by how they are perceived, they calculate how often think tanks are quoted by Democratic and Republican congressmen. The more a think tank is quoted by a Republican, the more conservative it is, for example.

What I found most interesting is one of the data charts comparing the sourcing of think tanks in a number of major media outlets such as Fox News, USA Today, the NY Times, LA Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc.

Fox News is reported as sourcing almost a perfect 50/50 split between conservative and liberal think tanks. Truly "fair and balanced". No one else in the study had a lower than 65%, or at least 2-to-1 record of liberal sourcing.

The debate on media bias continues.....