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On the plus side
“The fact that an astonishing percentage of Americans see biases and partisanship in their mainstream news sources suggests an active and critical onsumer of information in the U.S.” stated James Castonguay, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of SHU’s Department of Media Studies & Digital Culture. “The availability of alternative viewpoints and news sources through the Internet no doubt contributes to the increased skepticism about the objectivity of profit-driven news outlets owned by large conglomerates,” he continued.
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“Americans know bias and imbalance when they see it and they don’t like it. When most service organizations strive for consumer satisfaction ratings in the high eighties to low nineties, an overall positive rating of 40.7% is dismal,” said Jerry C. Lindsley, director of the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. He added, “Americans know that it’s just not that hard to present both sides and keep personal bias at home.”
Shows we're not all blindly following rubes, and many of us will question what the news tells us.
For the negative, it's sad how pathetic the state of the media is. No wonder circulation numbers are plummeting and viewership is going down.
As for the strange...
By four-to-one margins, Americans surveyed see The New York Times (41.9% to 11.8%) and National Public Radio (40.3% to 11.2%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.
Over 10% found NPR and the Times at least somewhat conservative? Wow.
Additional findings of the same report can be found here
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