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Rasmussen: 55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem in Politics Than Big Contributions
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A new Rasmussen survey shows that voters are still see media bias as a big problem in politics and that the average reporter is more liberal than they are.
From RasmussenReports.com
Voters agree that big money talks in politics but apparently not as loudly as big media.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters continue to think that media bias is a bigger problem in politics today than big campaign contributions, identical to the finding in August 2008.
Thirty-two percent (32%) say big contributions are the bigger problem, but that’s down four points from the previous survey. Thirteen percent (13%) more are not sure.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters say they are more likely to contribute time or money to a political campaign this year compared to previous election years.
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Voters ages 30 to 49 are the most wary of the media’s influence on politics today.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans and 62% of unaffiliated voters say media bias is the bigger problem in politics, a view shared by just 37% of Democrats. The plurality (46%) of Democrats says campaign contributions are a bigger problem.
Sixty-five percent (65%) of Mainstream voters and 54% of the Political Class agree that the bigger problem facing politics is media bias.
Just before the November 2008 presidential election, 68% of voters said most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and 51% believed they were trying to help Democrat Barack Obama. Just seven percent (7%) thought they were trying to help his Republican opponent, John McCain.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters say the average reporter is more liberal than they are. Eighteen percent (18%) say that reporter is more conservative, and 20% think their views are about the same ideologically as the average reporter’s.
As far as voters are concerned, liberal is the most unpopular of five common political labels.
Sixty-two percent (62%) believe that what the media thinks is more important to the average member of Congress than what voters think. Sixty-seven percent (67%) say the news media have too much power and influence over government decisions.
In a survey in February of last year, 57% of Americans said political donors get more than their money back in terms of favors from members of Congress. Fifty-one percent (51%) said you can influence a governor or member of Congress for less than $50,000 in contributions.
However, 68% believe that requiring the disclosure of all campaign contributions is more important that limiting those contributions.
Don’t expect to hear too much about this by Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow or any other liberal zombie at MSNBC or the rest of the mainstream medis as they want the public to believe that they are the ulitimate purveyors of truth and common sense and those on the right are the real problem.
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5 Comments for Rasmussen: 55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem in Politics Than Big Contributions
The media is feeding us to the lions.
Sadly most of the media houses do not see the danger their views have on the young population and those now joining the job market.
Incidentally,where are the jobs and long term employment?
Now, Obama and his cohorts are spreading the word via the media that the next imperative is job creation. Yeah, right!
What is next on their list of fixes?
What will be left of America after this man leaves office?
Certainly not a secure America or world!
The worst man is a dreamer behind your car wheel and he is sleeping while he careens on the road of life.
Guess we are all on that ride whether we like it or not.
What disgusts me is the Liberal media infatuation with a president mainly because he fits the bill of minority, black and socialist.
Is that what we have descended to now in America?
Judge the man fairly regardless of his colour, after all that is what civil rights are all about in reality.
To do otherwise is not only foolish but dangerous.
We are entrusted to shape our nation not just for today but for tomorrow.
We have only a few years before the nut jobs in our world decide to pull the plug and leave us in darkness.
Obowma. a pig in a poke. Born to lie….in good company with lefties A’Jad, Hugo, Kim, Fidel…no wonder he bows to them…he feels junior respect to them….he aspires to be as greatly famous socialists that they are. Only if we let him. He does not aspire to be the POTUS, he aspires to be the leader of the marxist world…..which he is now creating by busting up the most politically stable and wonderful country on the planet - our beautiful USA.
We were not perfect but getting along better than any other country. This devisive upheaval is a sad state of affairs.
Do any of you actually watch anything other than Fox? Curious if you can point to any concrete example of this so called bias?
I came to this site looking for a media watchdog, and it seems I was fooled. It seems to be a conservative lapdog media watchdog. 
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In my own defense against (left or right) media bias, I built polurls.com as a political blog aggregator to help me see a quick snapshot of left-leaning, right-leaning and centrist blogs all on one page.
Because of the format, no one blogger can hijack my feed stream. The red page only shows the top conservative/libertarian blogs, the blue page shows progressive blogs and the purple page shows a mix.
It’s a fast and interesting way to browser the latest political news. The purple page does a particularly good job of showing a wide-spectrum of current political opinions. Think popurls, but for politics.
Yeah, no kidding that the media is more liberal than most Americans! I was watching a news report on PBS last night, and the moderator and several guests were discussing how Mr. Obama is really more a “centrist” rather than radically on the left!
Centrist? Yeah, right! Who are they trying to KID? Or is it that THEY are so far left that Obama really does appear to THEM to be centrist???
One thing’s for sure. They sure don’t feel the heartbeat of Americans!