---they have the media in their hip pocket.:
Posted on 05/21/2015 6:35:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In the wake of the George Stephanopoulos scandal, most voters doubt the accuracy of political news coverage and think most reporters will slant their coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters now do not trust the political news they are getting. That's a 16-point jump from 45% last October. Twenty-one percent (21%) still have confidence in the political coverage they get, but that's down from 33% in the earlier survey. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
When it comes to the 2016 presidential campaign, only 23% believe most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage. Fifty-nine percent (59%) think that coverage will be slanted instead, with 36% who say most reporters will try to help Hillary Clinton during the campaign and 23% who say they will try to hurt her bid for the White House instead. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.
Three months before the 2012 presidential election, 74% of voters said most reporters when covering a political campaign try to help the candidate they want to win, consistent with surveying for several years prior to that. Fifty-one percent (51%) expected most reporters would try to help President Obama at that time, while only nine percent (9%) thought they would be biased in favor of his GOP opponent Mitt Romney. These findings were nearly identical to those just before Election Day in November 2008. At that time, 51% felt most reporters had tried to help Obama win the presidency, while only seven percent (7%) thought they had tried to help Republican candidate John McCain.
Forty-six percent (46%) of voters now think ABC should ban Stephanopoulos, a former high level Clinton administration official, from any programming related to the presidential campaign since Hillary Clinton is running for president. Thirty-four percent (34%) say they are less likely to believe the reporting on ABC News because Stephanopoulos failed to disclose the donations to the Clinton Foundation. Continued
And yet they’ll still repeat the lies fed to them by the DNC “media”.
…17% are not sure because they are too busy smoking weed or popping pills to tune in the news.
When Her Highness finally deigned to answer media questions.......Fox's Ed Henry seemed jubilant that he nailed her---getting to ask hot topic questions about the nefarious Foundation, and her emails from Blumenthal that she tried to keep hidden.
But Hillary played Ed Henry like a violin.....as she mocked him in dulcet tones.
THINKING LIKE A CLINTON IS NAUSEATING BUT IT MUST BE DONE: Hillary's mocking answers were calculated to keep her supporters enthralled.....b/c she knows they hate Fox.
This is true, but the 24 hour news networks are dominated by opinion shows, not news shows. People are mistaking one for the other.
Untrue. George Stephanopolous will serve as as shining example of fair and balanced reporting. </sarc>
There should be an embargo on anything clinton until she consents to answer questions. The fact that “news” outlets cover her travels only confirms they reflexively support her candidacy.
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