Posted on 09/27/2018 4:02:14 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Beyond Bias: The mainstream press might want to spend less time complaining about President Donald Trump's attacks on them and more time doing a better job. A new survey shows that a substantial majority of Americans think the press is biased, unreliable and out of touch.
The Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 Americans — which is a huge number for such polls — to gauge their views on the mainstream news media.
The results won't come as a surprise to many on the right. But they should be a clanging wake-up call for journalists and editors, as well as the owners of these news outlets. The survey shows that a large majority of the public finds today's press biased, out of touch, and marginally informative, and that they cover up their own mistakes.
For an industry that relies on trust, these are dismal results.
Most of the coverage of the Pew survey is focused on its partisan findings. Republicans are more likely to claim bias, for example, and less likely to say the press is trustworthy or informative.
No surprise there. Nor is it surprising that the partisan divide over the press increased in the past two years, as the mainstream media openly declared war on Trump and has, as a result, fumbled several major stories.
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Blog pimping is most unattractive.
Don't count on it.
They'll just take it as a call to up their propaganda game.
The press does not care about this. Their bias is so brazen today that it is clear they are no longer trying to hide it.
When their lies result in job loss they might change. They are rewarded for lying. As a result the industry attracts the best liars in the world.
I say let the press and MSM “Rock On” into OBLIVION!
Like anything else that does ITSELF in... do NOT underestimate America’s “DEPLORABLES” and the sheer number of them endowed with good ol’ common sense.
The problem with the press is, it has been liberal for so long that only liberals apply. So, the media has self-selected for liberalism. Also, no conservative could pass the education filter, which selects for liberalism. Can you imagine what would happen to a conservative student in a liberal class taught by a liberal teacher at a liberal university? Not only would he be ostracized, he would be threatened and harassed. Liberals won’t do this because they think about it, they’ll do it because that is what they are. In the end, no liberal could pass a test because he’s “wrong.”
You can’t reform the media. That would be like asking a cheetah to become a vegetarian. It can’t. Vegetarianism is not in its nature.
Media bias is nothing new. As a watcher of classic movies, it’s been going on since stone tablets. IMO, the only differences are in times like this, or NAZI Germany, or Stalin’s Russia, that things really become obvious. I have zero use for propagandists.
The Weather Channel has fake news.
Even local weather and local news Fake, Fake, Fake.
They lie, twist, bend, all with a straight face.
Fake Fake Fake.
I play a game, I point out all the fake news as I watch. If you play, keep anything throwable away from your reach.
They are all marketers, advertisers, they think they are influencing all of us and our opinions, except they aren’t
JMO, but the problem news organizations face remains the one which brought down titans of American industry like GM.
Managers who focus on “making dough” instead of making dough. US business culture, in a relentless focus on money instead of results, has foisted this upon all industries, not just car makers or news outlets. Anyone here remember the executive dining rooms at GM, along with the heated parking garages? At a time when said managers were dismantling Alfred P. Sloane’s carefully crafted strategy of differentiated brands to “save money”?
Milking a company dry while failing to invest in workers, processes, and innovation kills any business. Tolerance of the second-rate and slipshod will help to promote an out-of-touch elite, to the detriment of the Republic.
Speaking to the choir, that's why!
Yep but some of us are smarter than them.
At least some of the weather girls are Kinda Kute!
Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention about today’s managers of industry, to include news organizations.
Lack of brains in management is killing their companies. Too many lack critical thinking skills (can’t think more than one step ahead), have a provincial outlook on things (gotta conform to “elites”), and utterly fail to make hard right decisions instead of easy wrong ones.
That last one comes from a lack of moral fiber, from the exclusion of Judeo-Christian values throughout society. Only He can fix the ills in our society these days.
Not news. It’s an agenda.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Really???
It’s not appropriate to call this “blog pimping.” If you think it is, you don’t know what a blog is. IBD is a respected news publication that has been around since 1984. An editorial from Investors Business Daily should rightfully be considered as respectable as an editorial from the Wall Street Journal.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor%27s_Business_Daily:
“Entrepreneur and stockbroker William O’Neil founded the newspaper in 1984 due to frustration with the lack of data about stocks in newspapers.[2] In 1991, the publication’s name was changed from Investor’s Daily to Investor’s Business Daily.[5] In 1994, ten years after its founding, IBD was ranked among the fastest-growing newspapers in the country.[6]
“In 2005, the political cartoonist Michael Ramirez joined IBD. In 2008, Ramirez won his second Pulitzer for editorial cartooning while at the company.[7]
“In 2015, the IBD website was accessed by over 4 million monthly visitors.[2] In 2016, it was announced that the company would change its printing schedule to once a week, but continue to publish new content to its website daily.[1] In May 2016, the first issue of IBD Weekly was published while the media outlet continued to publish new digital content daily.[4]
“During the 2016 presidential election in the U.S., IBD was one of two polls that consistently showed Donald Trump in the lead. Leading up to the election, IBD’s poll was correctly dismissed as being an “outlying survey” and in the end missed the final popular vote tally by four percentage points in Trump’s favor.[8][9]”
Why is this individual excerpting his own work? If he is not pimping he would post the entire piece here.
Free Republic requires that ibdeditorials be excerpted. Check the Copyright List.
I see how it can be considered tacky for someone to post excerpts of their own work. However, we don’t know that others aren’t doing it using names other than their own. Would you rather have that, or people fessing up to it?
No sign of anything like that happening thus far. Newspapers are shutting down or going "all electronic" at a rapid rate, but the news organizations apparently have a disconnect as to why.
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