It’s actually just one of the revelations from research conducted at Brigham Young University. One sure to make traditional media blood boil is the conclusion by people who follow both the mainstream media and the blogosphere that blogs are more accurate. But anyway:

Davis also queried more than 200 journalists to learn how they use blog content in their coverage of political news. Most journalists were aware of influential blogs on both sides of the political spectrum, such as Daily Kos and Talking Points on the left and Michelle Malkin and Instapundit on the right. Despite equal awareness, journalists spend more time reading posts in the liberal blogosphere.

For example, more journalists know about Michelle Malkin than Talking Points. Yet twice as many journalists actually read Talking Points than read Michelle Malkin.

“When journalists take story ideas from blogs, those ideas naturally will come from blogs they read,” Davis said. “These reading patterns suggest journalists may be getting primarily one view of the blogosphere.”

A revelation sure to shock, er, absolutely no one who regularly reads mainstream media reports. In fact, often times you’ll find less spin on Talking Points Memo than MSNBC. Next they’ll tell us that water is wet.

Via HAH.