True North

In a new Rasmussen Poll released today, the findings indicate that the smokescreen of media impartiality may finally (blessedly) be dissipating.  The poll reflects an encouraging trend and is (one can surmise), the result of alternative media’s deconstruction of the media mystique.

The poll states:

Seven out of 10 voters (69%) remain convinced that reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and this year by a nearly five-to-one margin voters believe they are trying to help Barack Obama.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of voters think most reporters are trying to help Obama win versus 11% who believe they are trying to help his Republican opponent John McCain.  Twenty-six percent (26%) say reporters offer unbiased coverage .

I think the telling stat is that only one quarter of the public believes reporters offer unbiased coverage.  Back in the day of the mainstream monopoly, Walter Cronkite and his cronies at the NY Times would have been fired for those kinds of numbers.  Of course, back in those days the truth was whatever they said it was… So, while Uncle Walt would have been shown the door, today he would probably get his own show on MSNBC. 

The poll goes on to state:

Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats say most reporters are providing unbiased coverage in the current presidential campaign but only 20% of unaffiliateds and nine percent (9%) of Republicans agree.

Liberals, of course, cannot see media bias because they are so intimately involved with its propagation.  Still, this is a blessed day – Boss Media takes another broadside hit!

Cross-posted at Freedom Dogs. Comments welcome.