BIAS! New Poll Shows American's Think Media is Too Liberal/Too Influential

The Lid/Rasmussen ^ | 1/14/10 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Every time one of the talking heads on the liberal Mainstream media hear a charge of biased reporting, they reply with the typical elitist scoff and utter something banal like "I hear that from both sides so it can't be true." Fact is, according to the latest Rasmussen Poll, most American voters believe that the Mainstream Media is more liberal than they are and two thirds of them feel the media has too much influence over government decisions. They feel that media is trying to make the news not cover it.

According to the polls 67% of likely U.S. voters believe the news media have too much power and influence over government decisions. Just three months ago that number was 61%. Just eight percent think the media have too little power and influence, and 19% think their level of power is about right.

The other day when Weekly Standard Reporter John McCormack was purposely pushed to the ground by Martha Coakley operative Michael Meehan (for which he aplogized for the next day), the Associated Press gave us a perfect example of subtle media bias. They reported:

[gimme1ibertee]

****Bernard Goldberg slaps forehead and rolls eyes****LOLOL!!

[screaminsunshine]

Obama has a flaw in his Alinski strategy. He thinks he has it made with 50% paying no taxes. He forgot that a lot of those 50% really want to make enough money to be able to pay taxes. Americans do not mind paying reasonable taxes but they can plainly see this is insane radical Marxism.

[central_va]

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I’ve met a total of THREE people in my lifetime who didn’t think the media had a liberal bias. All three of them were well to the left of the average ABCNNBCBS reporter.