Another Poll....
Americans tell Gallup: Media Still Way Too
Liberal
Liberal opinionmakers have been trying to convince their
audiences lately that conservative news sources like the
Rush Limbaugh Show, the Fox News Channel and the
Washington Times now dominate the U.S. media.
But a Gallup survey released Wednesday found that three
out of four Americans who say the media has an
ideological bias complain that the press is still way
too liberal.
"45 percent say that the media are too liberal, while
only 15 percent say the media are too conservative,"
Gallup reported on it's Web site. 36 percent of those
surveyed told Gallup they perceived the press as
ideologically balanced.
While respondents who found that the media was too
liberal outnumbered those who perceived a conservative
bias by three-to-one, Gallup also said that "Americans
are roughly as likely to say that the media's news
coverage favors the Republican Party as the Democratic
Party."
Still, the three-to-one finding is likely to disappoint
Democrats like Tom Daschle, Al Gore and Bill Clinton,
who have been complaining of late that the American
media is in the grip of the vast right wing conspiracy.
The conservative tilt is supposedly so pronounced that
wealthy Democrats are now raising millions to bankroll
their own liberal talk radio network.
But if the Gallup survey is correct, most Americans are
already getting as much liberal news coverage as they
can stand - and then some.
News of the Gallup finding that most Americans think the
press is still too liberal has yet to be covered by the
liberal press.
Gallup pollsters contacted 1,002 adults nationwide, aged
18 and older, between Feb. 17-19, 2003. The survey has a
margin of error of ±3 percentage points.
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