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Americans believe the media is pro-Obama and is not objective (New Rasmussn poll)
If you are surprised by these finding you have been living in Uranus:
Just
17% of voters nationwide believe that most reporters try to offer
unbiased coverage of election campaigns. A Rasmussen Reports national
telephone survey found that four times as many--68%--believe most
reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win.
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Voters have little doubt as to who is benefitting from the media
coverage this year--Barack Obama. Fifty-four percent (54%) say Obama
has gotten the best coverage so far. Twenty-two percent (22%) say
McCain has received the most favorable coverage while 14% say that
Hillary got the best treatment.
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Comments (4)
Which just goes to show that 16 years of a Clinton (Bill) whining about media bias will always become "fact" among the ignorant.
June 9, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
The issue I have with polls that talk about media bias is that the questions and the results assume that negative press is undeserved.
Do I think that the media now has an anti-Bush bias here in 2008?
Absolutely they do and he has earned it!
I'm not saying that there is no bias in the media in the campaign; but I am saying that it can't be assumed that all bias is unfair.
June 9, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Opinions are like a--holes. Everybody's got one. Public opinion is just adding up a--holes. It doesn't have to bear any resemblance to truth.
The
Pew Research Center for People and the Press has an even more in-depth survey and analysis. It finds that Republicans are more likely to believe that Obama has been the beneficiary of press coverage. To a slightly lesser extent, Clinton supporters also were more likely to believe that. Yet the evidence of whether the press actually was more favorable to Obama will have to wait for a more comprehensive survey of actual news coverage.
June 9, 2008 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember the commercials where they go to a restaurant and give people two tastes of coffee -- one with cream, and one with Cremora (fake cream). All the people say they like Cremora better, and then they cut away, as though that proves how great their product is. (If Cremora was that great, they would say they are equally good)
All it proves is that they found a bunch of people who don't know what the real thing tastes like! People who have been brought up on fake, plastic, coffee lightener have no basis for comparison.
So when people talk about how the press should be, or what is wrong with it; it is shaded somewhat by the fact that most of them have never seen, heard, or read how journalism should be done.
June 9, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
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