Poll: Voters think reporters are biased liberals
Activism Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
By Joe Pompeo, YahooNews.com
It seems like reporters can’t write anything about hot-button topics these days without someone on the right or left accusing them of harboring a clandestine political agenda. They’re either in the tank for Obama, or not properly covering the challenges to his health-care plan. One minute they never have anything nice to say about the Tea Party, the next they’re overblowing its clout. And so on.
If you think we’re just being sensitive here, take a look at this new Rasmussen poll: Sixty-seven percent of likely U.S. voters believe that reporters try to bolster their preferred candidate when covering an election, while 46 percent believe that the average reporter is more liberal than they are, according to the national telephone survey.
Only 21 percent of respondents, on the other hand, have faith that journalists are fair and balanced in their coverage, and 18 percent find the fourth estate’s political leanings to be more conservative than their own.
Among the other findings:
- Forty-eight percent of voters believe most reporters would “hide any damaging information they learned to help the candidate they wanted to win.”
- Meanwhile, Republicans (59 percent) and unaffiliated voters (58 percent) “feel much more strongly than Democrats that most reporters … would hold back news that might hurt a candidate they wanted to win.”
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