The Project for Excellence in Journalism's "State of the News Media 2005 [3]" concludes that U.S. media coverage of Iraq [4] was balanced, that campaign coverage favored John Kerry [5], and that Fox [6] was "the most one-sided of all major news outlets." On Iraq, 25% of 2,000 stories analyzed were negative and 20% were positive. "Fox News Channel was twice as likely to be positive than negative, while CNN and MSNBC were evenhanded." A "more limited analysis of campaign coverage found that Bush [7] received more negative, and less positive, coverage than Kerry," perhaps due to setbacks in Iraq and Bush's incumbent status. Also, "with the exception of Republicans who prefer Fox News [8]," American's don't seek out news sources that reinforce their beliefs.