Polls: Public Dislikes Bias, Dems Want 'Fairness'

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"The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 55% believe media bias is more of a problem than big campaign contributions." As Tom Blumer pointed out when first reporting on this poll on Monday,

This latest survey adds credence to an earlier Rasmussen poll that showed that "49% believe most reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the election this year," while "just 14% believe they’re trying to help McCain."

Every new poll released shows a public increasingly disenchanted with news coverage and unwilling to suspend their disbelief while watching the liberal news. This is why, as Matthew Sheffield pointed out yesterday, they consume more and more of their news on the internet.

There are two other points revealed collectively by the three polls which we all already intuitively know:

Conservatives believe bias in the media is a bigger problem than liberals.
Liberals favor government regulation of the media in far larger numbers than conservatives.
Besides pointing out the obvious, I raise this issue for another reason: the added context of the Presidential election.

If Obama is elected in November, you can bet the Fairness Doctrine (or whatever other euphemism they decide to use) will be high on the agenda of Barack Obama and his MSM enablers.

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