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To: Sully- who wrote (18577)	3/14/2006 3:07:55 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

State of the Media 2006: Drifting Left Media Blog Stephen Spruiell Reporting I'll have more on the Project for Excellence in Journalism's State of the Media 2006 report as I continue to sift through it, but this passage stuck me as blogworthy: <<< In our inaugural report, we suggested that the heart of that declining trust was a “disconnect” over motive. Journalists see themselves as acting on the public’s behalf. The public believes they are either lying or deluding themselves. There was further evidence of that skepticism in 2005. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 75% of Americans believed that news organizations were more concerned with “attracting the biggest audience,” while only 19% thought they cared more about “informing the public.” The public also increasingly sees the press as slanted. Nearly three quarters of Americans (72%) in the summer of 2005 saw the press as favoring one side, up from 66% two years earlier. And 60% saw the press as politically biased, up from 53% in 2003. Republicans and conservatives are even more prone to feel this way than Democrats. This is an area that journalists have tended to dismiss over the years. Yet different surveys of journalists also suggest that while the preponderance of news people see themselves as moderate, the percentage who identify themselves as liberal is growing, while the percentage who see themselves as conservative is shrinking. >>> You can look at the results of that Pew survey here (I wrote about it here). people-press.org media.nationalreview.com media.nationalreview.com stateofthemedia.org stateofthemedia.org

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