[VRW Conspirator]

Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center in the fall said the media “tend to favor one side” compared with 53 percent who said so in 1985.

And the Libs pine for the good ol' days when America was propagandized and did not know it. But unfortunately for the Goebbelists, it takes but one time for the uninitated to be exposed to media bias of the left and these newly-aware people are forever wary of anything called "news". I know because I am one of these.

[The Working Man]

And the Libs pine for the good ol’ days when America was propagandized and did not know it. But unfortunately for the Goebbelists, it takes but one time for the uninitated to be exposed to media bias of the left and these newly-aware people are forever wary of anything called “news”.

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You might also add that as revenues decline for the various “newspapers” they have had to lay off more and more “real” reporters and have turned to large news disseminators like AP and Reuters for most of their non-local news. And that means that newspapers around the country all look like each other and have a homogenous point of view.

[jocon307]

“I know because I am one of these.”

Truly, it is liberating ne’cest pas?

[Calvin Locke]

...compared with 53 percent who said so in 1985.

Ah, but remember when Geraldine Ferraro was first put in front of reporters after Mundale picked her as his running mate?

The reporters started to ask some real questions, and Ferraro broke down in frustration, crying something akin to "But..., but..., but you're supposed to be on MY side!"

Between that, and Mudd taking out his good friend EM Kennedy in 1980 with the simple inquiry "Why do you want to be president" (and Mudd's subsequent elimination as a replacement for Cronkite), the "press" got in line with the Dems, as the difference in polls seems to indicate.

(Probably that, and the post-Watergate journalism types got seniority.)

[Aetius]

Yes it’s true that the Left no longer has a monopoly on media as they once did. But the network news still reach millions every night. And the NY Times and the AP still set a tone for print coverage. This all matters. If the roles were reversed and we had an incumbent Republican president right now, and everything else was the same, then he’d be polling much worse than Obama. This weak recovery would be treated as if we were still in a recession by the media.

And of course we also have pop culture bias. Again I can’t help but think that Obama wouldn’t have such a huge edge with younger Americans if not for the entertainment industry’s worship of him.