Surprise: Harvard Study Says More Than 60% Don’t Trust Campaign Coverage
All one need do is read News Busters and you can follow the bias on a daily basis and lack of comprehensive reporting in the news. Harvard just released this study, and as E&P broke it down, the results don’t give the MSM anything to be proud of:
…..four out of five people believe coverage focuses too much on the trivial ….more than 60% believe coverage is politically biased.
When asked if election coverage was politically biased, 40% believed it was too liberal; 21% too conservative; and 30% found it neutral. Nine percent of those responding were not sure.
Key among the findings:
• 64% of those polled do not trust press coverage of the presidential campaign.
• 88% believe that campaign coverage focuses on trivial issues.
• 84% believe that media coverage has too much influence on American voting choices.
• 92% say it is important that the news media provide information on candidates’ specific policy plans, but 61% say the media does not provide enough coverage of policy plans.
• 89% say it is important to hear about candidates’ personal values and ethics, but 43% say there is not enough coverage of personal values and ethics.
Instead, those surveyed claimed they were getting “exactly the type of campaign coverage that they want the least,” the report found.
Obviously Noel is all over this:
Nice report card, wouldn’t you agree?
Yet, one of the most interesting findings of this survey was conspicuously absent from E&P’s report: On a scale from one to four, with four meaning “Great Deal,” and one meaning “Not At All,” respondents gave the press a 2.26 for confidence in leadership.
This was the lowest reading for any sector named in the survey, with the highest being the military. The bottom four were Local Government, Congressional, Executive, and Press.
Amazingly, even Business was rated higher than these four sectors. No wonder E&P chose to ignore this inconvenient truth.
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