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Friday, March 16, 2007

What we all knew already..Media Bias


To most conservatives the idea of a media bias to the left is a no brainier. It is well known the many journalists are at best left of center and for the most part quite left. The New York Times is a classic example of being one step away from a certified liberal, secular progressive, propaganda machine. It is sad that we are at the point where journalism has lost most of its objectivity. This recent Zogby poll shows that most Americans believe just that, with two thirds believing the media swings left. and an astonishing 1 in 5 democrats believing this also. Fox news, I would agree leans right, they are they only Channel that does, and even then liberals are irate at its existence. What is the ratio of right to left 1:6? The liberal agenda is even bolstered with tax payer dollars heavily supplementing NPR. When the liberal crowd talks free speech I have to laugh. Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy here??

Released: March 14, 2007
Zogby Poll: Voters Believe Media Bias is Very Real

Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet/Zogby Poll shows American voters are skeptical political motivation may be behind blogs run by mainstream news organizations


The vast majority of American voters believe media bias is alive and well – 83% of likely voters said the media is biased in one direction or another, while just 11% believe the media doesn’t take political sides, a recent IPDI/Zogby Interactive poll shows.


The Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet is based at George Washington University in Washington D.C.


Nearly two-thirds of those online respondents who detected bias in the media (64%) said the media leans left, while slightly more than a quarter of respondents (28%) said they see a conservative bias on their TV sets and in their column inches. The survey, which focuses on perceptions of the “old” and “new” media, will be released today at the PoliticsOnline Conference 2007 at GWU. It is also featured in the March issue of Zogby’s Real America newsletter, now available on www.zogby.com.




Fritz Wenzel, Zogby’s Director of Communications, will also discuss with conference–goers the results of the first interactive survey to include video clips from presidential candidates. The video poll is the latest step in Zogby’s cutting–edge leadership in online polling, and revealed important respondent sentiment toward the candidates after viewing clips online of recent speeches and interviews. Zogby International’s Jonathan Zogby, Director of Domestic Business Development, has also published an article in the conference magazine about the emergence of Internet polling as an important survey research tool, particularly in light of the increasing difficulty of telephone polling.


The IPDI PoliticsOnline conference is one of the most important annual national conferences focusing on how the Internet has affected American politics.


While 97% of Republicans surveyed said the media are liberal, two-thirds of political independents feel the same, but fewer than one in four independents (23%) said they saw a conservative bias. Democrats, while much more likely to perceive a conservative bias than other groups, were not nearly as sure the media was against them as were the Republicans. While Republicans were unified in their perception of a left-wing media, just two-thirds of Democrats were certain the media skewed right – and 17% said the bias favored the left.


The Zogby Interactive survey of 1,757 likely voters nationwide was conducted Feb. 20-26, 2007, and has a margin of error of +/- 2.4 percentage points.


As the influence of blogs has risen, mainstream news organizations have attempted to get in on the action by creating their own blogs to counter those run by private citizens and those not in the news business. But American voters remain skeptical of major news outlets diving in to the blog pool – 26% speculated that the reason news organizations are placing blogs on their Web sites is that “blogs give news organizations a chance to promote a political agenda they could not promote in their regular broadcasts, cablecasts, or publications.”

This month’s Zogby’s Real America newsletter also explores Americans’ divided views on how to fix the U.S. health care system – how the nation’s health care compares to other counties, whether Americans should seek a radical change and what type of health care system would benefit the most Americans.

For detailed methodological statement on this survey, please visit:
www.zogby.com


2 comments:

Elsa Martinez said...

You bring up NPR a lot, but, unlike, FOX news which (as you mentioned) is very much to the right - NPR is not 24/7 news. I've seen those FOX programs and their 24/7 bashing of the liberal point of view in a pious way. Any extremist is unhealthy if you ask me. Meanwhile, myself, and MANY other listeners I know listen and support NPR for the SPLENDID and often, MOVING, coverage they do of the Arts, foreign and independent films, food, interviews, and life stories. As far as the actual news coverage segments, I feel that I learn much more listening to it than watching the lame local TV news at night programs. Regarding the War (and other situations) I don't think the USA is always in the right and it's very enlightening to understand how the rest of the world perceives us. You cannot get that point of view listening to news programs here. All the above are the reaons why I think NPR is an INVALUABLE resource.

Patrick said...

My problem with NPR is the obvious liberal bias, and the fact that it almost (with the exception of children’s programs) caters to educated white liberal elites. It is a largely TAX payer supported organization that tries to justify its funding by purporting to be essential for people who can’t afford cable i.e. the poor. The vast majority of their programming both on TV and radio does not even come close to catering to the poor. It broadcasts what liberal elites believe the poor should know, such as foreign and independent films and opera. Not that those shows are bad, but what audience are they catering for? I can tell you certainly not poor inner-city immigrants. What do 30 year old British sitcoms have in common with the poor of America? I could go into the many details of their biased reporting and the issues they focus on. Again the BIG problem here is it receives public funding. Now I have a point to argue if public tax dollars are justified for NPR, then should churches receive public funding also?

Found this quote that says it better than me.

Why do I care? I care because NPR spends federal tax dollars doing it. If you want to broadcast your views about saving the rain forest, dangers of smoking, mean House Republicans, greedy oil companies, irresponsible gun owners, same-sex marriage, or the plight of the Palestinian people, do it with your own money — not mine.