Zogby Poll: Vast Majority Believe Media Is Biased

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A poll released today by the Zogby organization, conducted in conjunction with the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, reveals that a vast majority of Americans believe that the media is biased. 83% of likely voters said the media is biased in one direction or another, while just 11% believe the media doesn’t take political sides.

Of particular significance: "nearly two-thirds of those online respondents who detected bias in the media (64%) said the media leans left, while slightly more than a quarter of respondents (28%) said they see a conservative bias."

Other findings of interest:

• "97% of Republicans surveyed said the media are liberal, two-thirds of political independents feel the same, but fewer than one in four independents (23%) said they saw a conservative bias. Democrats, while much more likely to perceive a conservative bias than other groups, were not nearly as sure the media was against them as were the Republicans. While Republicans were unified in their perception of a left-wing media, just two-thirds of Democrats were certain the media skewed right – and 17% said the bias favored the left."
• "As the influence of blogs has risen, mainstream news organizations have attempted to get in on the action by creating their own blogs to counter those run by private citizens and those not in the news business. But American voters remain skeptical of major news outlets diving in to the blog pool – 26% speculated that the reason news organizations are placing blogs on their Web sites is that 'blogs give news organizations a chance to promote a political agenda they could not promote in their regular broadcasts, cablecasts, or publications.'”

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Zogby poll ping to Today show list.

[kjo]

I'm not big on any poll Zogby does, but this one rings true. It is beyond me why last place CBS does not jetison Kute Kattie and hire Brit Hume. Or somebody willing to play the news straight. Their ratings would triple overnight.

Guess CBS doesn't need the money. What say the stockholders?

[MarineBrat]

[gulfcoast6]

Well goodness, that a way to go Dick Tracy!

[roses of sharon]

Biased? No way.

They are political orgs, who hire political hacks to pose as reporters, to run a 24/7/365 political campaign against Republicans/Conservatives.

And break campaign laws everyday.

[gracesdad]

Well that was a waste of money. They needed a poll for that?

[WesternMA]

clap...clap...clap...Zogby has a firm grasp of the obvious.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I did amend the original NewsBusters item to begin "Call it confirming the obvious . . . "

[ZULU]

VAST CONSERVATIVE CONSPIRACY bump!!!!!

[Dan(9698)]

Or somebody willing to play the news straight.

They would have to replace their whole newsroom.

The person out front is really just a news reader. They read what someone else puts up on the teleprompter.

Note how those who left FOX suddenly moved to the left, and those who left one of the others and went to FOX moved to the right.

There are too many jobs at stake for them to make much of a move.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The media is not just biased. It is in business for the explicit purpose of promoting socialist goals.
It is not accidental. It is not just some kind of oversight. It is deliberate, chosen, willful and intentional.

[Bahbah]

The 28% who think the MSM leans right are the posters at the DUmp and Kos.

They have shown that they are not satisfied with not watching outlets that they perceive as biased, they are working to delegitemizing them and, if they can, they will shut down admitted conservative radio with the fairness doctrine.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

It is amusing to watch them accuse even NPR of being a tool of the right!

[sageb1]

Ah! But do the vast majority think Zogby is biased?

[Bahbah]

It is amusing to watch them accuse even NPR of being a tool of the right!

It's jaw dropping.

[Laverne]

LOL. This is ONE poll you will NOT see mentioned on abccbsnbccnnmsnbc or fnc for that matter.

[SquirrelKing]

Fresh from the MSM:

[stockpirate]

The 28% were Extreme left-wing socialists, so anything to the right of them is to the right.

[jmaroneps37]

Any rank and file rat who believes the ratmedia is bias against the rat is either a liar or a brain dead leftist moron.