Most Americans agree the media is biased in one way or another

YouGov ^ | 06/22/2017 | Hoang Nguyen

[ForYourChildren]

70% of the general public agrees that news organizations are subject to partisan agendas!

The rise of fake news, a growing multitude of media sources, and an increasingly polarized nation have Americans learning to take their headlines with a grain of salt.

New YouGov research shows that most Americans (70%) agree that news organizations report stories in a light that’s partial to who owns them. It’s interesting to note that the two prevailing political parties perceive media bias to varying degrees. About one in two Democrats (52%) believe that news media is influenced by funding while a drastically greater number of Republicans (85%) hold the same to be true.

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[TigersEye]

Biased, eh?

Democrat Pat Caddell's opinion of the MSM is a bit more pointed.

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an "enemy of the people" Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: "These people have no honor!" Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

CADDELL ON BENGHAZI: PRESS HAS FAILED THE COUNTRY, FACTS WILL PUT OBAMA IN DEEP TROUBLE May 13, 2014

The MSM are enemies of the people!

[onyx]

Absolutely!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Everyone remember the dour faces on the news on Tuesday night, as they were forced to report that Jon Ossoff had lost the election in Georgia??

Everyone recall election night 2016, the long faces and funereal atmosphere, as they were reporting the election results for Trump????

Any bias there???

[WMarshal]

I so enjoyed watching the news that night! It was, it was.....!magical

[marktwain]

Nope. Not funding.

Ideology.

The Establishment media regularily forgoes profits in order to push its agenda.

[Sasparilla]

....Any bias there???...

Certainly not with Martha Rattitz, who had tears in her eyes behind the microphone as it became obvious that Hillary was getting what she deserved on November 8th.

[loveliberty2]

"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver

Decades of liberal/progressive efforts to censor, erase and deny the underlying ideas of liberty upon which the U. S. Constitution was framed have had consequences.

Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.

CREATOR

People

Government

America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights.." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter.

Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government.

This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic con­cept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of in­dividual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity.

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Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

[BradyLS]

Rush and other conservative commentators state their biases up front. The MSM hides theirs behind their lie of “objectivity.”

[Arthur McGowan]

I love it when loons accuse the MSM of being in the bag for Republicans. (I’ll bet Hodgkinson was one of those.) Or the katholyk pro-aborts like Michael Sean Winters and his commenters, who think the bishops are all Republicans.

[Arthur McGowan]

Martha Raddatz always looks close to tears—as if somewhere, somehow, some woman is not having an abortion.