…just shocking. A new Pew Research Center poll says most voters surveyed think journalists favor Obama over McCain:
Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election. By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don’t favor either candidate, and 13% say they don’t know which candidate most reporters support.
A separate study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center?s Project for Excellence in Journalism looks at the media?s recent campaign coverage and finds that McCain received significantly more negative than positive coverage between the GOP convention and the final debate. The study says that press treatment of Obama has been somewhat more positive than negative, but not markedly so.
Predictably, 90 percent of GOP voters thought the media favor Obama, and 62 percent of Democratic and independent voters said the same thing. Is anyone surprised? Except perhaps the media itself, which fegins objectivity even whilst thrills of joy run up their collective legs at the prospect of a Barackian utopia.
Jon Ham addressed the topic of media bias a couple weeks ago at a Shaftesbury Society meeting.