A surprising statement
The Institute for Politics, Democracy/Zogby Interactive poll found nearly two-thirds of Americans believe there is a bias in the media, with 64 percent saying it is liberal and 28 percent saying it's conservative.That logic would suggest that if more people see the media as liberal, and if people see bias when the reporting doesn't reflect their point of view, then the media is indeed left of the political center of this country....
But [a different study] found that people see bias as any reporting that does not reflect their point of view.
Also surprising was the omission that Zogby's poll found that "two-thirds of political independents feel the same, but fewer than one in four independents (23%) said they saw a conservative bias."
America thinks the media leans left. That's not too surprising, considering that most reporters -- especially at the newspapers that set the narratives of national politics (NYT/WaPo) -- share a remarkably similar set of political beliefs, which tends to be left of center.
Posted by Evan @ 03/18/07 06:20 PM
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