Poll: By 10-1, Respondents Believe News Media Want Hillary to Beat Trump
“56 percent of likely voters say the media is biased against Trump."
10.31.2016
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Two national polls released late last week confirmed that the American people widely recognize something the news media refuse to admit: that the news media is heavily biased in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, according to a NewsBusters study.
Susan Page and Karina Shedrofsky concluded in a USA Today story on the latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll that “By nearly 10-1, all those surveyed say the news media, including major newspapers and TV stations, would like to see Clinton rather than Trump elected.”
Page and Shedrofsky went on to point out that even a solid majority of Clinton supporters also recognize this bias among journalists:
That includes 82% of Trump supporters and 74% of Clinton supporters. Six in 10 Trump supporters say the news media is coordinating stories with individual campaigns, rather than acting on its own accord. Three in 10 of Clinton supporters feel that way.
Here is the specific breakdown of the polls results:
AP reporters Jonathan Lemire and Emily Swanson noted in an Associated Press-GfK poll late last week that “56 percent of likely voters say the media is biased against Trump, just 5 percent say it’s biased in his favor and 37 percent say coverage is mostly balanced.”
Even Hillary supporters concede the imbalance:
Eighty-seven percent of Trump’s supporters see the media as biased against him, and even Hillary Clinton’s supporters are more likely to see bias against Trump than bias in his favor, 30 percent to 8 percent. Sixty percent of Clinton’s supporters see no bias in either direction.....
By contrast, 51 percent say the media is biased in Clinton’s favor and just 8 percent see media bias against her, while 39 percent say the media is mostly balanced. Sixty-seven percent of Clinton’s supporters say media coverage of their candidate is balanced, while 87 percent of Trump supporters say the media is biased in her favor.”
In the USA Today story, a Trump supporter from North Palm Beach, Florida was quoted about the decline in the public trust in the media:
“When I was a kid, we watched the news; we would see what happened, and now it’s what they want you to see. There’s no gray area in wondering whether the media is biased.”
Thursday, the One America News Network ran a story on the study by Newsbusters' Media Research Center, which found that “Donald Trump has received significantly more broadcast network news coverage than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, but nearly all of that coverage (91%) has been hostile.”
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