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Not surprisingly, when broken down by party, Democrats place the greatest trust in the mainstream media with 58 percent feeling a-okay with their news coverage, but only 26 percent of Republicans do. What is interesting, though, is that after independents’ trust in the media fell below the 50-percent mark in 2004, it’s only continued on a downward trajectory, and only 31 of independents today are feeling good about about the media painting a fair, accurate, and complete picture of the current political scene.
What has me really raising my eyebrow (the left one, to be specific), however, is how people replied to the question of whether or not they’re paying particularly close to this presidential-election news cycle.
48 percent of Republicans are following presidential politics closely, but only 39 percent of Democrats
Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
I'm not surprised at all. The media is mostly liberal, and you can always tell a liberal and their bigotry against conservatives when they rally against FOX News. You see, liberals believe that only their voices should be heard, that's why they whine about Fox news all the time, because it gives a voice to other opinions and beliefs that aren't liberal.
IMHO.
Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
I'm not surprised at all. The media is mostly liberal, and you can always tell a liberal and their bigotry against conservatives when they rally against FOX News. You see, liberals believe that only their voices should be heard, that's why they whine about Fox news all the time, because it gives a voice to other opinions and beliefs that aren't liberal.
IMHO.
Originally posted by Hawking
reply to post by Stormdancer777
I suppose you're not familiar with the GOP's cable news channel FoxNews
I believe that intelligent people see these news outlets for what they are:
-MSNBC is blatantly liberal
-FoxNews is blatantly conservative
-CNN is just sensationalism. They'll say what they need for ratings.
edit on 21-9-2012 by Hawking because: (no reason given)
The record distrust in the media, based on a survey conducted Sept. 6-9, 2012, also means that negativity toward the media is at an all-time high for a presidential election year. This reflects the continuation of a pattern in which negativity increases every election year compared with the year prior. The current gap between negative and positive views -- 20 percentage points -- is by far the highest Gallup has recorded since it began regularly asking the question in the 1990s. Trust in the media was much higher, and more positive than negative, in the years prior to 2004 -- as high as 72% when Gallup asked this question three times in the 1970s.
This year's decline in media trust is driven by independents and Republicans. The 31% and 26%, respectively, who express a great deal or fair amount of trust are record lows and are down significantly from last year. Republicans' level of trust this year is similar to what they expressed in the fall of 2008, implying that they are especially critical of election coverage.
Independents are sharply more negative compared with 2008, suggesting the group that is most closely divided between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney is quite dissatisfied with its ability to get fair and accurate news coverage of this election.
More broadly, Republicans continue to express the least trust in the media, while Democrats express the most. Independents' trust fell below the majority level in 2004 and has continued to steadily decline.
Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
I'm not surprised at all. The media is mostly liberal, and you can always tell a liberal and their bigotry against conservatives when they rally against FOX News. You see, liberals believe that only their voices should be heard, that's why they whine about Fox news all the time, because it gives a voice to other opinions and beliefs that aren't liberal.
IMHO.
Originally posted by PvtHudson
reply to post by Stormdancer777
You're posting this on a forum of far left wingers who have no problems with lying, biased media as long as it's working for them. They won't care about this, nor anything else you can produce to show our MSM has become nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Democrat party.
They will however rage over Fox. In their minds, the only bias and spin that can be allowed is THEIR lies and spin.
I think anyone who isolates themselves to just fox.. or just msnbc for example.. are ill informed at best..
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me because the same exact thing happens in the reverse..
Originally posted by jimmiec
I wish the media would just give the news. If America falls apart i would not want to be a journalist.