CBS POLLING POLICIES (Mark Hyman blisters CBS)

Sinclair Broadcasting (News Central.tv) ^ | 3/29/04 | Mark Hyman

[Loyal Buckeye]

CBS News keeps changing its policy on reporting results of its own polls. Or so it seems.

A CBS News/New York Times poll found John Kerry leading George Bush by a margin of 48 to 43 per cent. The CBS Evening News reported this on February 16th.

Weeks later a CBS News/New York Times poll revealed Kerry leading Bush by one point: 47 to 46 per cent. CBS Evening News reported these poll results on February 28th.

Then a third CBS News/New York Times poll showed a change in position. Bush was leading Kerry by a margin of 46 to 43 per cent. But this story never appeared on the CBS Evening News.

Likewise, CBS Evening News thought it newsworthy that Bush’s approval rating fell below 50 percent. It reported this fact on February 28th although it didn’t deem it newsworthy when his approval rating rebounded to above 50 percent. This fact never made the newscast.

Guess which candidate CBS Evening News supports for the Presidency?

And that’s The Point.

Tell me what you think by filling out the form below.

I'm Mark Hyman

[Loyal Buckeye]

Mark Hyman, who frequently provides editorial comment on Sinclair Broadcasting's network, is again on point.

[conservativefromGa]

hehehe his last name is hyman

[Roscoe Karns]

"This race is tighter than a bullfrog's clymer."

[expatpat]

And Rather should know -- he is one.

[Roscoe Karns]

Bet this is the first thread on FR with "hyman blisters" in the title.

[Lancey Howard]

Certainly no surprise here.

CBS long ago gave up playing the game, still practiced by ABC and NBC, of pretending to be objective, non-partisan "journalists". CBS is a Democrat Party mouthpiece, period. They don't hide it, and they don't care who notices.

It's no big deal though, since I think they're barely on the radar screen anyways. At least, I don't know anybody who watches Dan Rather (he's still alive, right?) or '60 Minutes' or whatever else they may have going on.

[Tribune7]

still practiced by ABC and NBC,

I heard that Russert did a great job of shooting Clarke to pieces, Sunday. Is this true?

[Cosmo]

i heard Russert basically threw softballs and let Clarke ramble on.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I watched Meet The Press, and I swear Russert and Clarke were playing patty cake.

[cinFLA]

The SAC BEE stopped giving polls about two weeks ago when GWB pulled back ahead.

[Lancey Howard]

Russert is actually one of the good guys these days. I mean, he is becoming genuinely more objective probably because he has grown jaded over the years trying not to shake his head in disgust at the barrels and barrels of Barbra Streisand dished out by his guests every Sunday morning.

Remember, Russert is no simpleton "news reader" like Rather, Cronkite, Jennings, and that ilk. And he's not a washed-up, partisan hack like Ed Bradley who tries to get by on sensational, interruption-filled, steamroller jobs where his goal is to fluster and belittle his guest so as to make himself look big.

Russert likely harbors liberal tendencies but he is a genuine journalist and he asks tough, fair questions of everybody. And he always gives his guests a chance to complete their thoughts and make their points. You can hardly ask for more than that.

[Bullish]

Dan Rather is a hemorrhoid on the ass of America.

Disregard every word CBS news utters.

[LdSentinal]

CNN did the same thing.

They conducted a poll, but focused only on the Clarke questions in the poll.

There was no mention of Bush's approval ratings bouncing back to 53% nor that Bush was now leading Kerry by a 51%-47% margin in the poll.

[onyx]

If you can locate the form he speaks of
as being "below" please post it.
In my mood, I would be delighted to air my opinion.

[jocko12]

CBS is trying to pull a Kerry -flip flop flip flop

[onyx]

CBS has a candidate and an agenda.
Kerry and left wing.

[Natural Law]

Dan who?

[staytrue]

Football teams usually cirle important games on their schedule. I'm for circling May 1.

[Heff]

Did anyone see the USA Today Poll? They had a headline earlier that said something like "Bush's favorability declines"...or something like it...now it says..
Majority supports Bush on terrorism...the story is exactly the same and by the same writer, but they changed the headline...I wrote an email complaining about it and I thought I posted it here but can't find it. I AM AMAZED THAT THEY CHANGED THE HEADLINE!!!!!

[Richard Kimball]

He looks like Montgomery when Patton took Palermo.