Critics have long charged that the media uses polls to push their own agenda.
Of course, when CBS does a poll showing Bush pulling ahead of Kerry by 3 points, but CBS doesn’t air those results after airing earlier results that help Kerry, that charge seems harder to shake.
When a CBS News poll found John Kerry leading George W. Bush by 48 to 43 percent amongst registered voters, Dan Rather reported it on the February 16 CBS Evening News, and when another CBS News poll two weeks ago put Kerry up by a mere one point over Bush, by 47 to 46 percent with registered voters, the February 28 CBS Evening News highlighted the finding. But on Monday… the CBS Evening News didn
What do you expect from Rather. He has long been known to be a liberal agenda advocate. I think Bozell had some interesting commentary on the a while ago, I’ll have to dig through his archives and try to find it.
What do you expect from Rather. He has long been known to be a liberal agenda advocate. I think Bozell had some interesting commentary on the subject a while ago, I’ll have to dig through his archives and try to find it.
[expletive] liberal media. I’d feel sicker at this, but it’s so familiar that it barely even makes a dent in my sensibilities any more.
Of course, there’s also that damned “conservative media” to lament as well, as evidenced by the world’s biggest media mogul bringing members of the Bush team to advise his upper management…
Link here: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1172627,00.html