Posted on 08/09/2007 5:23:52 PM PDT by Laverne
More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.
And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.
More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.
More than half -- 53 percent -- of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America".
Among those who get their news from newspapers and television, criticism of the news organizations was up to 20 percentage points lower than among Internet news audiences, who tend to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole, according to Pew.
The poll indicates an across the board fall in the public's opinion on the news media since 1985, when a similar survey was conducted by Times Mirror, Pew Research said.
"Two decades ago, public attitudes about how news organizations do their job were less negative. Most people believed that news organizations stood up for America... a majority believed that news organizations got the facts straight," Pew said in a report.
The Washington-based Pew Research Center describes itself as a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
It’s got my vote...
Could America be on the verge of waking up?
bttt
politically biased, inaccurate, and don’t care about the people they report on...
"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."
With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...
Take that ....McManus, Kalplan, Olbermann, Matthews, Blitzer, Cooper and Couric
(They're toast)
Other, apparently, are slow to figure out things.
Why don't the rest of us see it?
ping
These are good signs, looking forward. More and more, the Dems are relying on the lost and the lame. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those out there.
Congressman Billybob
I believe a large percentage of the media and democrats want the US to be defeated in Iraq.
More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Sohow come these boob voters vote for the DEM party when the media is their propaganda arm
59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate...
64 percent [said] they were politically biased.
More than half -- 53 percent...also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America".
Any sane industry would respond to these poll results with absolute panic -- accurately recognizing it as the voice of doom for their enterprise.
They would immediately respond with efforts to discover exactly why their market felt so negatively about their product. And, having made the appropriate discoveries, they would've changed their product accordingly.
Such actions would be recognized as the difference between catastrophic failure and survival.
Instead, the Mainstream Media's response is disdain for their market, contempt for their critics.
It is, indeed, a stunning exercise in corporate and career suicide...
She went on to say that the media is biased towards the Republicans. I said, "What?" She said the media has to say what Bush tells them to or they lose their invitations to the press conferences and media events. I said, "Wow, what a loon" and walked away.
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