39% See Bias In Reporting On Campaign

[CatWoman]

Nontraditional Media Gain Ground, Poll Finds
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 12, 2004; Page A06


Americans are evenly split over whether news organizations favor one political party or the other, with a growing number of Democrats joining a larger number of Republicans in seeing the media as biased toward the other side.

Twenty-nine percent of Democrats surveyed by the Pew Research Center say presidential campaign coverage is tilted toward the GOP, up from 19 percent in 2000, a study released yesterday says. Forty-two percent of Republicans see bias toward the Democrats, up from 37 percent in the last presidential campaign. Overall, 39 percent see biased reporting, and 38 percent do not.

"Democrats think the media are giving President Bush a free pass," said Andrew Kohut, the center's director. "For years most of the discontent was on the Republican side, and now it's bipartisan."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8434-2004Jan11.html

[Cush]

1. about time

people started to wake up

[buycitgo]

2. 29 percent?????????? WTF??????????

who did they interview?

Tom Daschle?

Dick Gephardt?

Joe Lieberman?

those are very disturbing numbers.

[Cush]

3. its a start

the numbers are up

[kayell]

4. It may be a start, but not a very promising one

it says that most dems in the country are in a lib'rul media meme induced coma.

[Cush]

5. some interesting numbers

Among people younger than 30, one in five reports regularly learning about the campaign from such comedy programs as Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" and "Saturday Night Live" -- double the level of four years ago.

Four in 10 Democrats -- but only a quarter of Republicans -- cite CBS, NBC and ABC as their main source of campaign news. Nearly twice as many Republicans as Democrats rely primarily on Fox News for their political information (29 percent to 14 percent), while CNN is favored by 27 percent of Democrats and 20 percent of Republicans. One-fifth of Republicans, but only 12 percent of Democrats, turn mainly to radio, where talk shows are dominated by conservatives.

[Terwilliger]

6. Time to bring up the popular belief that Saddam involved in 9/11

which would suggest that the media is not unbiased in ANY way