Democrats Start To Get It On The Press

10:40 am EST September 14th, 2009 | Media | 3 Comments

Pew has a new poll out about press accuracy. Interesting finding:

Republicans continue to be highly critical of the news media in nearly all respects. However, much of the growth in negative attitudes toward the news media over the last two years is driven by increasingly unfavorable evaluations by Democrats. On several measures, Democratic criticism of the news media has grown by double-digits since 2007. Today, most Democrats (59%) say that the reports of news organizations are often inaccurate; just 43% said this two years ago. Democrats are also now more likely than they were in 2007 to one side identify favoritism in the media: Two-thirds (67%) say the press tends to favor one side rather than to treat all sides fairly, up from 54%. And while just a third of Democrats (33%) say news organizations are “too critical of America,” that reflects a 10-point increase since 2007.

Republicans/conservatives came up with the media bias story a long time ago in order to whip up the base against a boogeyman, but after years of attacks on the Clintons, Al Gore, while whipping up support for the Iraq War, the left has learned that the press is not your friend.

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3 Responses to “Democrats Start To Get It On The Press”

  1. jr says:
    September 14, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    The Broderites always side with repubs under the guise of bipartisan and “common sense”

  2. signsanssignified says:
    September 15, 2009 at 9:09 am

    but after years of attacks on the Clintons, Al Gore, while whipping up support for the Iraq War, the left has learned that the press is not your friend.

    It’s not a matter of the press being a friend of the left. The press is not and should not be a friend of anyone. The point is that the mainstream media have by & large bent over backwards to appease the right and/or have simply bought into a lot of their assumptions while essentially surrendering responsibility for their own independent judgment by hiding behind a mindlessly programmatic ‘even-handedness.’ Thus we get endless stories of the “opinions on the shape of the earth differ” variety, which lend legitimacy to absurdities like the McCaughey/Palin ‘death panels’ canard.

  3. Sean D. Martin says:
    September 15, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Two-thirds (67%) say the press tends to favor one side rather than to treat all sides fairly,

    To be fair, the Press shouldn’t treat all sides equally. Birthers, Creationists et al do not deserve equal treatment or respect.