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New Poll: Most Americans See Media As Biased and Favoring Obama
ByRich NoyesA new poll on "Trust and Satisfaction with the National News Media" from Sacred Heart University's Polling Institute finds five out of six Americans (83.6%) see the national news media as...
View ArticleExhibit 1-7: White House Reporters
In 1995, Kenneth Walsh, a reporter for U.S. News & World Report, polled 28 of his fellow White House correspondents from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today,...
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Documenting the Media's Lopsided Liberal Slant
MRC Details 40+ Surveys About Journalists' Liberal Opinions and Public's Growing Awareness of Bias ByRich NoyesSurveys over the past 30 years have consistently found top journalists are much more...
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Rasmussen Finds Most "Angry" with Liberal, Pro-Obama Media
ByRich NoyesA new Rasmussen Reports survey finds most Americans (51%) say the average reporter is more liberal than they are, and nearly as many (48%) think the media are "are trying to help"...
View ArticleExhibit 2-24: Gallup Finds Most Distrust the Media; Public’s Confidence Low...
A Gallup survey of 1,017 adults conducted between September 8-11, 2011 found “the majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.”...
View ArticleExhibit 2-25: Pew Finds Record Low Respect for News Media (2011)
A Pew Research Center poll of 1,501 adults conducted in July 2011 found that “negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core...
View ArticleExhibit 2-26: Record High 67% See Political Bias in News Media
A Pew Research Center survey of 1,000 adults conducted in January 2012 and released the following month found a record high 67 percent of Americans see “a great deal” or “fair amount” of “political...
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Updated for 2012: The MRC's 'Media Bias 101'
ByRich NoyesThe Media Research Center has just concluded an update of our “Media Bias 101” Web package, with more than 40 articles detailing scholarly research of the past 30 years showing the mostly...
View ArticleExhibit 1-2: Major Newspaper Reporters
In 1982, Fred Evans of California State University in Los Angeles asked reporters from the fifty largest U.S. newspapers about their political identification and for whom they voted in 1980. In that...
View ArticleEarly Polls of Journalists, 1962-1985
For a 2009 academic paper, “The Political Attitudes of American Journalists: A Survey of Surveys,” Northeastern University professor William G. Mayer tracked down survey research from the 1960s, ’70s...
View ArticleMedia Bias 101: What Journalists Really Think -- and What the Public Thinks...
Decades of Research Showing What Journalists Think, How Journalists Vote, What the Public Thinks About the Media, and What Journalists Say About Media Bias Media Bias 101 summarizes decades of survey...
View ArticleLiberal Media Love Flawed Studies Claiming a Vast Scientific Consensus on...
Latest study had low response rate, while previous studies criticized for ‘math errors,’ ‘fuzzy’ definitions. ByJulia A. SeymourA new survey of climate scientists published in “Environmental Science...
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TV Buries the Bad News on Public’s Rejection of Obama’s Presidency
ByRich NoyesIt’s no secret that television news has long been addicted to public opinion polls; decades ago, all three broadcast networks decided to partner with an influential newspaper (ABC News...
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Gallup Poll Shows All-Time Low In Public Confidence In Media
ByTim GrahamThe pollsters at Gallup reported Wednesday that Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report "the news fully, accurately, and fairly" has dropped to its previous all-time low of...
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