A poll you'll believe in!

[The Backlash Cometh]

More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.

And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.

More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.

More than half -- 53 percent -- of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America".



http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_public_sees_news_media_as_biased_08092007.html

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Hallelujah! They're eyes are finally open. That took long enough.

:grr:

[bryant69]

2. of course Rush Limbaugh and his ilk will be cheering the same survey

Just because they have rejected the Mainstream Media doesn't mean they are coming around to our way of looking at things, unfortunately.

Bryant
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[stillcool]

3. Got to love those internets...

I don't know where I'd be without mine. Prior to 2000 I was damn near 100% Ignorant about my country..it's policies and it's history. Some things I wish I never found out..but..it is what it is. I like to assume that the younger generation, with more information available, is less ignorant than mine. Hopefully they won't get hooked on the paid to say media.

[Bitwit1234]

4. How about a poll on WHY we don't buy newspapers

Same old story..Tired of reading about bush and his republican henchmen.

[OHdem10]

5. Biased in which dire ction/ Left or Right

I would say Biased to the Right.

Wonder what those taking the survey thought??

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. That's a good question.

However, if the conversations on the street are any indication, the right-wingers don't listen because they think the media is Liberal, and the rest believe that it leans right.

So, the media, by snubbing conventional wisdom and allowing Fox News to lower the bar by politicizing journalism, has managed to shot itself in the foot. Nobody believes them now.