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Posted on 07/05/2015 5:47:43 AM PDT by Zakeet
Nearly three quarters of Americans believe the news media reports with an intentional bias, according to a new survey.
The 2015 State of the First Amendment Survey, conducted by the First Amendment Center and USA Today, was released Friday. It shows that only 24 percent of American adults agree with the statement that "overall, the news media tries to report the news without bias," while 70 percent disagree.
When the question was asked last year, 41 percent agreed, a 17-point difference.
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Other findings in the survey:
• 38 percent agree that business owners should be required to provide services to same-sex couples, a 14-point drop from 2013, when the question was first asked.
• 35 percent say the government "should be allowed to deny issuing license plates to a group who intends to display a Confederate flag on the plates," while 56 percent oppose the idea.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Yes
The other 30% live in a very low information world.
50% of the people out there are below average intelligence.
It may depend on when they're asked -- my straight-ticket-Demwit-voting friends and relatives only bitch about the media when they're mad about some specific news story that factually contradicts their ass-brained beliefs. Anyone familiar with reality knows that most of the media is run by Demagogic Party shills. Thanks Zakeet.
This is a big PR victory for conservatives. I’m not sure it can be traced to any one specific event, but I’d like to thank George Stephanopoulos for his contribution to this sea change.
Given that 90+% of the media is the propaganda wing for the progressives and their ilk which includes the DNC as cheerleaders, your statement might better be put as "NPR is the TAXPAYER EXTORTED propaganda wing ..."
I agree those 30% are idiots, but they are also the leftists which benefit by that bias so they don't recognize it as bias. Only as confirmation.
Mark Twain — ‘If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.’
During or shortly after the 1968 Tet offensive, on the air he stated as a fact that the war in Vietnam was lost despite the fact that the VietCong were decimated (in the literal sense) and North Vietnamese were seriously thinking of suing for peace until lies like his and the anti-war movement gave them hope. This was just his most blatent lie.
Overall media bias was as bad then as now. A guy in my hootch received a clipping from his mother describing how our base was nearly over-run an we suffered losses. The night in question there was one rocket that landed near the end of the runway causing no damage.
The sad part of this survey is that there are probably quite a few in that 70% that are bone-headed leftists who think the media is biased to the right.
During the 60’s, the press was overwhelmingly pro Vietnam War. My Lai changed everything.
Only 70?
The trouble is, while 70% know that the media is biased, a proportion of those 70% actually support that bias and think it’s a good thing!
Yes, the RATs love the RATagandists.
I don’t know what news to which you were exposed, but the My Lai incident didn’t come to public knowledge until a year and half (November, 1969) after Cronkite’s lies and the rest of the press’s echoeing chorus. In the northeast editorial pages were filled with experts espousing how the Dominoe Effect didn’t hold water and that we were wasting lives because of it (ask Cambodia, Laos, and Burma that worked out for them). Yes, we wasted lives but it was because we let politicians and journalists dictate ROE.
The news papers and networks gave huge coverage to anti-war protests starting in 1965 (bringing the cameras in close to make it look like even small gatherings were immense) giving little coverage to the successes in VietNam (yes, there were some).
The current crop of fools running ‘journalism schools’ are one of the reasons newspapers are dying. If a young person wants to ‘influence’ they belong on madison avenue selling snake oil... not at a newspaper.
The powers behind the news were uniformly run by companies that were pro-Vietnam War. The protests were covered and they were anything but very small, other than in their infancy.
The protests took a while to get started precisely because the press was pro-Vietnam War. The American people were presented zero coverage that was anti-war for a long time before negative coverage started slipping through.
Here is Newsweek’s coverage: http://clickamericana.com/eras/1960s/the-vietnam-war-as-seen-on-newsweek-magazine-covers-1965-1973
During a bombing halt in September 1967, Harrison E. Salisbury of the New York Times became the first correspondent from a major U.S. newspaper to go to North Vietnam.
His reporting of the bombing damage to civilian targets forced the Pentagon to admit that accidents and “collateral damage” had occurred during the bombing campaign.
For his effort, Salisbury received heavy condemnation and criticism from his peers, the administration, and the Pentagon.
Half are liberals who blame Fox News.
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