Here’s where your truly professional polling companies really make their money:
Republicans Remain Deeply Distrustful of News Media
Democrats much more positive
PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans in America today remain deeply distrustful of the national news media — in sharp contrast to Democrats, who have a great deal more trust in the media’s accuracy. Overall, less than half of Americans, regardless of partisanship, have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media. Nearly half of Americans — including over three-quarters of Republicans — perceive the media as too liberal while fewer than one in five say the media are too conservative. Americans are less likely to perceive bias in their local news media than in the national news media.
Well, here and presidential election exit polls. Good money to be made there as well.
Okay, now you know why I read blogs instead of the Arizona Republic.
BUT!!!! The Good news is Hillary has picked up another major endorsement!
Strap in for this E Ticket ride…..
I want to know who those people are…could be fun at a party.
Republicans in America today remain deeply distrustful of the national news media — in sharp contrast to Democrats, who have a great deal more trust in the media’s accuracy.
In a related story, I remain distrustful of hyenas — in sharp contrast to jackals, who think they’re perfectly fine.
That’s what you get when you have media knuckleheads like Ted Turner saying “we have no enemies” and North Korea is great because it has no fat people. (http://endofempire.blogspot.com/2007/10/disgusting-downright-stupid-and.html)
Of course, Ethel from Lowell seems to have had the right idea.
I find this interesting, seeing as how I’m a firm believer in free markets. Seems Rush stepped into it a week or so ago, which happens to coincide with the press to revive the Fairness Doctrine (anybody else remember Point/Counter-Point as the format for discussion of the issues of the day?). Conservatives distrust the major media networks, thinking them slanting towards a liberal point of view. Liberals point out how Conservatives have a lock on talk radio and have Fox on their side, the rest being merely objective.
Sort of makes me wonder, if the Fairness Doctrine were to become law again, who has the most to lose? Liberals, with a lock on three networks and the subsidized NPR as well as state affiliates, or Conservatives with their lock on AM Radio and one network?
Of course the real question is how one writes the law to determine what is fair, but I have a secret desire to see a law passed that requires a Rush Limbaugh or an Ann Coulter opinion to follow news and commentary on NPR. The thought of NPR paying good money to air those opinions in the pursuit of “fairness” just warms the cockles of my black little heart.
Beware of what you ask for, lest you receive it. High and hard with a left-hand twist, as it were.
– Max