OH NOES! IT'S THE DERNED LIBRUL MEEDIA!!1! WE'RE SCREWN!!1!

[berni_mccoy]

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This is the latest idiotic battle-cry of the right. Get your tinfoil hat's on boys and girls, because you're gonna need them to understand this conspiracy b.s.

Get this: Rasmussen has taken a survey and written an article titled "Belief Growing That Reporters are Trying to Help Obama Win"

Here is the lead-in:

The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help Obama with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago.

Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help John McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.

Poor, poor, John Sidney, getting pwned by his own lolcatz.

[Kokonoe]

1. If we can't trust who we are to believe everyone else believes.

Who can we believe but ourselves.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. But conservatives don't watch the liberal media

So the MSM only holds sway over liberal Democrats, therefore only committed Democrats will be influenced by the perceived bias. Republicans have nothing to worry about, since they only watch Fox. Hahahahahaha

Did Fox Nooze pass up a seat on the "Change We Can Believe In" world tour?
No?
I didn't think so.... have some complimentary peanuts.

[unpossibles]

3. I think a more honest headline for that article should be

Conservatives more likely to trust gossip and emails than they are the media.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. That's been my recent observation

While republicans can't figure out internet campaign financing, they have e-mail rumors and myths down to a fine science.

[NattPang]

5. I wrote to them.

Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Dear Rasmussen Reports,

In reading your findings http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/belief_growing_that_reporters_are_trying_to_help_obama_win
that a growing number of Americans believe that the media wants Obama to win, I wonder if the fact that the media constantly says that the media favors Obama is why people think it.

According to a widely respected Pew report, the quantity of media reports does not equal qualitative or positive press.
In their April 2008 report, titled "Less news is good news for McCain", The Pew reported that
http://people-press.org/report/412/less-news-is-good-news-for-mccain
McCain's coverage, however sparse, has been mostly positive, while Obama gets more coverage, with a lot of it being negative.

An example is a recent Washington Post poll that showed 72% believed that McCain would be a better Commander in Chief. This poll was heralded by just about everyone in the press (just do a google). How is that favoring Obama, when the media literally hid the fact that the same poll favored Obama by 8 points overall? Media Matters weighted in to discuss these poll results and how they were massaged by the media to favor John McCain.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200807170011

Also, take for instance Obama's trip abroad. The media repeatedly posed doubting questions of Obama strategy on this, and whether Obama's trip could bring risks. Then on Sunday, Howard Kurtz's topic of conversation on CNN was how the press is favorable to Sen. Obama. Meanwhile, many reporters on television (in particular on Cable) prior to that had been insisting last week that the big networks were accompanying Obama, and that this meant that the media favored Obama and were being unfair to McCain. No such fuss had been made for the McCain trips, they said, while ignoring the fact that McCain had not invited the media to come on his trips.

In closely watching the coverage of the election, I do not find that the media favors Barack Obama, although he may get more coverage. In fact, there appears to be collusion between some in the Corporate media (AP, WAPO, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) to say that the media favors Obama. I submit that if facts and statistics were taken into consideration when the media made this assertion, they wouldn't have any evidence to back them, as I mentioned earlier, numerous mentions does not equal positive coverage.

Then conveniently, here comes your publication with an article and "poll findings" that agree with the multitude of the media and the new "meme"; the media wants Obama to win.

The bottom line is that corporate media does not favor Barack Obama in its reporting, and repeating it over and over again does not make it so. Your article is a prime example of the media stating that Obama gets more favorable press, while at the same time not giving Obama any favorable press.

I do wish that the media was fairer, and reported McCain's negatives as much as they do Obama's, but to date, that is only a myth being built by the corporate media, and its enablers; outfits like yours.

Sincerely,