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Occupy Wall Street, Still Seeping Into the NYT's Consciousness

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:39:00 +0000

The Times can hope: "About two-thirds of Americans now believe there are 'strong conflicts' between rich and poor in the United States, a survey by the Pew Research Center found, a sign that the message of income inequality brandished by the Occupy Wall Street movement and pressed by Democrats may be seeping into the national consciousness."

Clay Waters

Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise highlighted a Pew Research Center survey on Thursday, 'Survey Finds Rising Strain Between Rich And the Poor,' and quickly suggested it meant 'the message of income inequality brandished by the Occupy Wall Street movement and pressed by Democrats may be seeping into the national consciousness.'

By Record Margin, Public Sees Media as 'Politically Biased'

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:49:00 +0000

Rich Noyes

Two polls released Thursday show the public now sees the media as liberal, biased, inaccurate, untrustworthy, harmful to democracy and even immoral.

A poll of 1501 adults conducted by the Pew Research Center found a record high 63% said the media were 'politically biased in their reporting,' vs. just 25% who felt reporters were 'careful that their reporting was not politically biased.'

New Poll: Most Americans See Media As Biased and Favoring Obama

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:08:00 +0000

Rich Noyes

A 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 "very or somewhat biased," and nearly nine out of ten (89.3%) say the media were a strong factor in electing Barack Obama as President last year.

WaPo: Conservatives Are Happier than Liberals

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe

The worldview of conservatives and Republicans makes them a happier lot than liberals and Democrats, even in a year when the Republican “candidate is sinking in the polls,” the Republican “president plumbs historic depths of popular scorn” and the Republican “free market squeals for intervention” according to a story in the October 24 Washington Post.

Times Can't Figure Out Why Media's Ignoring Iraq Lately

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:56:00 +0000

Could the surge and resulting decline in the fatality rate for U.S. troops have something to do with it? The Times gives five other reasons before even making the suggestion.

Clay Waters

In "The War Endures, But Where's The Media?" media reporter Richard Perez-Pena speculated (based on reports from the Pew Research Center for the Press and the Project for Excellence in Journalism) why coverage of the war has fallen precipitously from last summer - which just happened to be the same period when the troop surge kicked in and U.S. fatalities began to decline.

Pew Poll: Press Promotes Progressive Results, Conceals Conservative Results

admin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0000

David Niedrauer

The Washington Post and USA Today trumpeted the results of a Pew study measuring generational differences in attitudes toward sex, the Post on the front page, but they didn't tell the whole story.

Pew Poll on Marriage and Parenthood Reflects Narcissism, Cultural Corrosion

admin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe