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A new poll by Rasmussen Reports suggests that Bill Clinton may have been right when he suggested the media was in the tank for Obama.
From the Politico.
Half of Americans think the press is trying to help Sen. Barack Obama win the presidential election, according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports.
In an automated survey of 1000 likely voters, Rasmussen found that 49 percent of respondents believed reporters would favor Obama in their coverage this fall, compared with just 14 percent who expected them to boost Sen. John McCain. The number of Americans who see pro-Obama bias in the press has increased by five percent in the last month.
According to Rasmussen’s numbers, less than a quarter of voters – 24 percent – now trust the press to report on the election without bias.
“People are looking at reporters the way reporters want us to look at Wikipedia,” said Rasmussen Reports CEO Scott Rasmussen. “It’s useful information, but you’ve got to check the source.”
Rasmussen suggested that glowing coverage of the run-up to Obama’s trip abroad may have contributed to the perception that reporters sympathize with his campaign.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, suggested a different source for the public’s concerns about bias: the press itself.
“As the press covers reports of disparities in amount[s] of coverage,” Jamieson said, “the belief, often reinforced in conservative media, that the press are biased against the Republican should increase.”
Jamieson pointed to a study released last week by the Tyndall Report, a media-monitoring group, that showed Obama vastly outstripping McCain in press coverage, as the kind of report that would “magnify this perception of bias among non-Obama supporters.”
I am sure that the press will dismiss or even better ignore the poll results, but it does serve as a glimpse of the challenge McCain faces during the campaign. A media darling when he was railing against GOP policies has been usurped by a charismatic, slickly packaged Democrat that more closely resembles the media’s own personal viewpoints.
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3 Comments for New Poll Suggests the Media is in the Tank for Obama
1. McCain and the RNC still fail to understand and how to use the power of the media to tell their story. They fail to understand the sound-bite orientation of so many Americans. They fail to understand the power of image over substance.
The ‘best mousetrap’ is not the biggest seller. They seem untrained for modern communications or perhaps are pompous or lazy. What? talking pictures? ridiculous!!
2. They let the dems get away with portraying themselves as poor; they let them hijack thier issues. Obama responds in minutes, the repubs murmur days later. poohey!
3. Perhaps if the repubs developed channels to America they could judo the media-moguls to the mat. Mostly the media wants to gain share, they need stories to do that. The 2-year demo campaign served both their bias and their need for print.
Tell the truth, tell it in short understandable ways, tell it often, tell it loudly if necessary.
4. “There is still time” should be the message – time to examine closely, time to see BO for what he is, time to unmask those who pull his strings, time to see how unprincipled he is, time to see his weaknesses, time to see his old tried-and-failed liberal agenda, time to reconsider.
the poll, of course, is meaningless since it simply asks people what they THINK the press is going to do.
anyone who really thinks the press is favoring obama over mccain has serious cognitive issues.
the press is on the same side as the DNC for nearly EVERY single issue in today’s political debates. It’s not a coincidence. They are the DNC’s base, cheerleading section and 527’s.