Most MSM news organizations aren't giving much attention to recent Gallup poll results concerning how Americans feel about Sen. Hillary Clinton's becoming President. Here in North Carolina, the liberal trending left Raleigh News & Observer has been totally silent on the results.
So you're telling yourself the results were bad for Hillary. You're right.
Here's some of what the Jan. 25 New York Post reported:
Most American voters now say there's no way they'd vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2008 — while just 16 percent are firmly in her camp, a stunning new poll shows.There's more here.
The Gallup/CNN poll found that 51 percent say they definitely won't vote for Clinton (D-N.Y.) in 2008, another 32 percent might consider it, and only 16 percent vow to back her.
That means committed anti-Hillary voters outnumber pro-Hillary voters by 3-1.
The results are indeed stunning. They were surely noticed and talked about by the Democrats who make the news decisions at The N&O.
The N&O's decision to date to tell readers nothing about Clinton's disastrous poll numbers is understandable given the papers political orientation.
And I would accept that if the paper admitted in was essentially a Democratic Party paper or an opinion journal.
But The N&O continues to tell readers and advertisers it's a fair and accurate newspaper that just wants to bring readers information so they can be better informed citizens. Exec. editor for news, Melanie Sill, claims the paper is free of news bias.
Really? The paper still hasn't told readers about Sen. Ted Kennedy's more than half-century long membership in The Owl Club, which denies women membership.
Kennedy held Owl membership even as he railed and berated Judge Samuel Alito for joining for a brief period while a student at Princeton a club Kennedy feels didn't respect women the way the way he feels a club should. Or something like that.
I find it impossible to believe The N&O is what it says it is: fair and accurate.
1 comments:
Fish,
Re: << Once I had access to the Internet and could get real news through that the others went by the wayside.>>
I talk to a lot of college and grad students. Under 30s, too.
I'm still amazed at how often they tell me they don't watch TV news or read newspapers even though I first started hearing of the “tune outing” about 10 years ago. It wasn’t common then but it sure seems to be now. I wonder why I’m still amazed.
As for the students and under 30s, it’s not that they don't care about current events and the world. It’s that most of them just see MSM as trivial, biased and a waste of their time.
Fish, you may be riding the wave of the future.
On the "Fair and Accurate" matter: If we could ever convert media bias to gasoline our energy problems would be solved. In fact, America could become a net energy exporter.
John
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