Posted on 07/06/2015 5:25:40 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Less than a quarter of all Americans – 24 percent – believe that the news media try to report without bias, according to The Newseum Institute’s annual national survey on public attitudes about the First Amendment.
The survey asked if respondents agreed with this statement: "Overall, the news media tries to report the news without bias."
Twenty-four percents said they agreed with this and 70 percent said they disagreed.
“The 24% who now say the media try to report news without bias is the lowest since we began asking this question in 2004,” the institute reports in its 2015 State of the First Amendment Survey, and “represents a 17-point drop from last year and a 22-point drop from 2013.”
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So there’s still hope if 3/4 of the population recognizes The Ministry Of Propaganda for what it is.
Straight from The Elections Are Fake dept.
That’s 24% too high.
ALL news media tries to be biased, not unbiased.
They don’t report, they tell stories.
I have been somewhat under the weather since my doctor informed me that I have an acute case of Post Islamic Stress Trauma with Apologetic Whitehouse Fatigue (PIST-AWF). For those of you who do not know what that is:
PIST-AWF is a newly defined disease that is found to be widespread and highly contagious.
Doctors at the CDC released a statement disclosing a new disease that has already infected over half of the United States and is anticipated to continue to spread.
The disease itself affects the cells of a person’s entire body then goes dormant. The disease ravages the body and leaves serious side effects. These side effects have been labeled as PIST-AWF.
Symptoms include:
* Severe pain of the scalp from pulling your own hair while viewing your president pander to Muslim terrorists.
* Loose bowels from swallowing the fact we elected Obama twice.
* Extreme hunger due to vomiting from nightly seeing terrorists murdering innocent people.
* Bleeding from the eyes. This is not Ebola. It is your eyes reacting to accidentally flipping to a channel that shows Al Sharpton as a legitimate news show host.
If you feel you have Post Islamic Stress Trauma with Apologetic War Fatigue, please notify your local election board and place your name on the list for a cure. It is expected, and sincerely hoped, that the cure will be available in November of 2016.
Meanwhile The Surgeon General has announced there is no strategy as yet for this disease plaguing a majority of US citizens which is now in its 6+ year!
Not bad!
It's the 24% who are too clueless to realize that the media are biased that determine the outcome of elections.
Hard to believe 24# of the population’s that stupid...
You may well be right, the poll did not ask if the bias was to the left or right.
Just as an aside, the whole “independent” media is a creation of the twentieth century. The media, at the time of the founding fathers, was about as biased as you could get. The party newspapers were the primary source of political news. The publishers ran the news.
Does anyone remember Hearst getting us all wrapped up in Cuba?
No one should expect “unbiased” political news. Reporting on a fire or robbery? Sure. But not political news.
Correct, however this may be a little more accurate: ...the whole “independent” media is a creation of the leftist media in the twentieth century.
Does anyone remember Hearst getting us all wrapped up in Cuba?
Why I do believe this was called "Yellow Journalism", ...probably because Hearst was so yellow he always got someone else to fight the war for him.
It was because the newsprint was so acidic, it would turn yellow almost immediately after printing. It was a euphemism for cheap.
They overplay stories that fit their agenda, and underplay or ignore stories that don't.
I know, I just won’t pass up an opportunity to trash Hearst.
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