I think this is the poll Rush mentioned yesterday. He said there were some polls that were coming out either the middle of the week or weekend. He said, when you see the BASTARDLY RATS(my words) go ballistic or heighten their attack on the president they haven't gotten the results they are looking for!
They've already escalated the anti-Bush rhetoric on CNN this morning. The poll results did not achieve what they wanted, so they are pushing harder.
Miles O'Brien on CNN has been particularly vicious. I've already written to CNN once to complain about his demonstrable bias.
CNN: the most DISTRUSTED name in the news. We need to keep hammering at this.
I learned something very early on that todays media does not seem to believe. Every time I tried to tell my audience what to think, they rejected my attempts. They tended to defend those I attacked and attacked those I defended.
I finally figured it out. People do not like to be told what to think. What is effective is to lay out facts and situations that tend to lead where you want the public opinion to go. A media outlet can lay out the facts and situations but it is important for the media person not to draw any conclusions.
My first attempt at this method took on a popular city manager. I believed him to be a crook. But he had the city council and community leader support. The public seemed to like him too.
I never attacked him. I played very neutral. But we did extensive coverage of facts and details about existing situations that I thought were bad. This went on for a few days... then a funny thing started to happen. Phone calls and even people who saw me on the street started pointing out how foolish I was... Why was I just asking questions.. obviously this guy was a crook and they felt I was way too dumb to see it. They saw through him.. It just dummy old me who did not.
Over a 3 week period more and more people became outraged at what was going on. Never once did I accuse him of doing anything wrong. But with the facts and descriptions we broadcast a huge number of people drew the conclusion that he was a bad apple. After all most three weeks he resigned his job and left town in a single day.
On many other occasions over the years, I laid out details of situations with out trying to tell my audience conclusions to draw. I didn't call it that .. but it was We report You decide type situation. But I chose what to report. In those cases almost invariably the audience came to my view of the situation.. although I never expressed my view publicly.
But when ever I tried to accuse someone or report that unnamed people were accusing someone of bad actions, it mostly backfired in my face.
I think most of the MSM actually believe that people are stupid and need to be told what to think.