The latest Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet/ Zogby Poll reports that the “vast majority of American voters believe media bias is alive and well – 83% of likely voters said the media is biased.” And of those who saw bias, nearly two-thirds (64%) said the media leans left. According to Zogby:While 97% of Republicans surveyed said the media are liberal, two-thirds of political independents feel the same, but fewer than one in four independents (23%) said they saw a conservative bias. Democrats, while much more likely to perceive a conservative bias than other groups, were not nearly as sure the media was against them as were the Republicans. While Republicans were unified in their perception of a left-wing media, just two-thirds of Democrats were certain the media skewed right – and 17% said the bias favored the left.
Am I impressed with the 17% of Democrats who owned up to the media’s liberal bias? You bet.
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Eighty-three percent of "likely voters" does not seem like a number which justifies "Just Ask America" or your liberal bias theory. I suppose that likely voters is a percentage of registered which is a percentage of eligible which is a percentage of . . . . You may be correct, there may be an overwhelming, singular, malicious liberal bias to the news that Americans get, but the above does not prove that. Five hundred years ago any poll in Europe would probably have elicited that a majority believed that the earth is round and God created man and woman . . . .
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