The Media Created Him, Now they try to save him

[rushmc 23]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/09/09/study-media-buries-own-polls-to-protect-obama

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According to a study by The Media Research Center, the three big broadcast networks are not only ignoring President Obama's cratering approval numbers, to protect him from that news, the nets are going so far as to bury their own polls. Despite commissioning 15 polls this year to measure the president's approval ratings, the MRC found that the network's evening broadcasts only reported twice on the results.

As an example, although the network has commissioned 5 polls in 2014, The NBC Nightly News hasn't reported once on the president's falling approval ratings. Not once.

During the first 8 months of the fifth year of George W. Bush's presidency (2006), the MRC reports that the networks commissioned 23 polls and reported a whopping 52 times on the former-president's falling approval numbers.

By contrast, during the first 8 months of the 5th year of Obama's presidency (2014), the same networks commissioned 15 polls and only reported on the approval results twice.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2014/09/08/mrc-study-tv-buries-bad-news-obamas-collapsing-polls

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It’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 with the Washington Post; CBS News with the New York Times; and NBC News with the Wall Street Journal) to sponsor their own regular surveys for use in their political coverage. That’s why it’s so extraordinary that polling news has practically vanished from the Big Three evening newscasts in 2014 as President Obama’s approval ratings have tumbled and the public opposes defining administration policies like ObamaCare. Just last Thursday, for example, Gallup found Obama’s approval rating at a record low of 38 percent, yet none of the three broadcast networks bothered to mention this on their evening or morning newscasts.

Shouldn't Wolf Blitzer care???

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

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So far this year, there have been only two citations on an evening newscast of President Obama’s national job approval rating. “Obama has the lowest average approval rating of any President after five years in office,” correspondent Jon Karl announced on the January 28 edition of ABC’s World News. Seven months later on the August 31 edition of the CBS Evening News — a Sunday evening on a holiday weekend — political director John Dickerson opined that Democrats are facing a tough midterm election because the President’s “approval rating is just above 40%.”

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[cvfd1399 0]

We need a third media source that is proven to be neutral and report only on the facts and funded by a means that would not make them biased. Fox and cnn types are adding static to the information being presented to Americans and I'm tired as hell about hearing their bullshit.

I remember the times when you could watch the news, and it wasn't sensationalized and biased, it reminded me of listening to some old bbc news broadcast. It had integrity, and just spoke facts. These days the media is all about getting your amped up with anticipation and half truths.

Shit I can't even watch discovery anymore. On all their shows just before a commercial break they are all screaming like someone was going to die, and dramatic music is being played. Come to find out someone just stubbed their toe.

[LyraM45 0]

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Shouldn't Wolf Blitzer care???

Funny you mention that-- I was just watching CNN yesterday with a friend and they were crapping on Obama quite a bit. I've seen them report the numbers you're talking about. Both of us agreed it was nice to see them tell it how it is with regards to that.

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[LyraM45 0]

I still stick to international news sources a lot for these reasons. Everybody here has some kind of schtick and group to appease.....some just more than others to the point where it's laughable.

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[Boomerdog 0]

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I remember the times when you could watch the news, and it wasn't sensationalized and biased, it reminded me of listening to some old bbc news broadcast. It had integrity, and just spoke facts. These days the media is all about getting your amped up with anticipation and half truths.

Uh....maybe. I would offer the possibility that the delivery of the news was more nuanced versus the blatant bias we hear today from both sides. Further, what the network chooses and chooses NOT to broadcast is jsut as revealing.

Finally, the purpose of the news is NOT to inform but sell advertising time. They collect what they believe are the pertinents facts then spin it to appeal to the demographics of their listnership.

If ya don't like the news, go out and make some of your own!

[DanG 1]

As much as I'm reluctant to admit it here, I've been pretty impressed with Al Jazeera America so far. They don't bother with the latest Kardashian news, and seem unbiased at least as it pertains to the US political spectrum.

- Dan G

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DanG

As much as I'm reluctant to admit it here, I've been pretty impressed with Al Jazeera America so far. They don't bother with the latest Kardashian news, and seem unbiased at least as it pertains to the US political spectrum.

But viewed through what filter?

The news isn't what it used to be.

Journalistic integrity has given way to ratings and the $.

Ya just can't trust them.

I mean, if the data can be believed, (and I'm not sure it can), lets assume it can, that is 26 times as much reporting on Bush, trying to keep his rating down vs. 1/26th as much reporting, hoping that ignorance in the populace's exposure, will make the media's guy look better.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[DanG 1]

I can only view it through my own filter of good sense and life experience, just like everyone else.

It is ironic that the OP is a complaint about mainstream media bias based on an alternative media report. Maybe the report is biased, too?

Hmm.

- Dan G

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DanG

I can only view it through my own filter of good sense and life experience, just like everyone else.

It is ironic that the OP is a complaint about mainstream media bias based on an alternative media report. Maybe the report is biased, too?

Or, just outright lies.

MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC all have reported Obama's polling numbers in the last week.

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[cvfd1399 0]

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MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC all have reported Obama's polling numbers in the last few days.

It might be there, but it's buried on some back page in small print. I went to all the sites front pages and it was not there. I even did a google search with the news initials and "Obama poll" and all but abc were not showing probably because abc paid for the poll and it was getting more hits.

If you put fox in front it was the first 3 links under the search. It's proven the news is biased and do not put out much bad info on their guys, and bash the other side.

I would love to have a non partisan neutral funded news that could be trusted and loved by all sides.

Name one news origination that people here will not dispute a link from? If I link fox, amazon comes in here and shouts feaux news like a child, if I link Wikipedia, someone comes in and says it can be changed by anyone, if I link cnn, someone will have an excuse about that. Can we find a source all sides agree on?

[turtlespeed 226]

cvfd1399

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MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC all have reported Obama's polling numbers in the last few days.

It might be there, but it's buried on some back page in small print. I went to all the sites front pages and it was not there. I even did a google search with the news initials and "Obama poll" and all but abc were not showing probably because abc paid for the poll and it was getting more hits.

If you put fox in front it was the first 3 links under the search. It's proven the news is biased and do not put out much bad info on their guys, and bash the other side.

I would love to have a non partisan neutral funded news that could be trusted and loved by all sides.

Name one news origination that people here will not dispute a link from? If I link fox, amazon comes in here and shouts feaux news like a child, if I link Wikipedia, someone comes in and says it can be changed by anyone, if I link cnn, someone will have an excuse about that. Can we find a source all sides agree on?

Sure - just as soon as you can get all parties to come to a consensus on the matter.

(see what I did there?)

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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cvfd1399

Can we find a source all sides agree on?

You mean like this?

http://www.pollingreport.com/

I find it hilarious when people complain things are difficult to find on the internet.

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[cvfd1399 0]

No one agrees on polls here either, they say
-it was too small of a group
-it was geographically not spread out
-it was paid for by such and such who is biased
-did they ensure a balance of all political types participated so it's not lopsided

Who runs polling report.com, does it include all polls, or does it leave some out? I read a post on the democratic underground site that it left the Gallup poll out, why? Where is the funding, it's a pay to use site for most of the content, how does that play into what they report?

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cvfd1399

I read a post on the democratic underground site that it left the Gallup poll out, why?

You do realize you could always just, you know, look at the data on the site and answer that question yourself.

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[cvfd1399 0]

I'm not actually asking questions, just giving you an example of what users here will go through to discredit sources.

[rushmc 23]

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***I can only view it through my own filter of good sense and life experience, just like everyone else.

It is ironic that the OP is a complaint about mainstream media bias based on an alternative media report. Maybe the report is biased, too?

Or, just outright lies.

MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC all have reported Obama's polling numbers in the last week.

Finally
but now they have no choice because it is so bad
but the point is how much it has been reported
When compared to Bush? They have said very little

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[quade 4]

Rush, I'm fairly certain you're wrong about this.

ALL of the majors do polling. ALL of them report it on a regular basis. ALL of them. Every. Damn. One.

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[rushmc 23]

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Rush, I'm fairly certain you're wrong about this.

ALL of the majors do polling. ALL of them report it on a regular basis. ALL of them. Every. Damn. One.

You can be pretty sure but you would be wrong
And when the results do not come back as hoped reporting is buried deep in the paper or report or not talked about at all
The graphs and numbers are in the second link

Secondly
MOST of the media outlets do polls to make news
Not to find out what the people think

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,119]

>does it include all polls, or does it leave some out? I read a post on the
>democratic underground site that it left the Gallup poll out, why?

does it include all polls, or does it leave some out? I read a post on the democratic underground site that it left the Gallup poll out, why?

PollingReport.com page for Obama:
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President Barack Obama

► Obama Administration 9/9

► Job ratings

Major polls 9/9

Gallup daily tracking 9/10

► Favorability ratings
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I heard the Republicans don't want anyone to know how badly they are polling, why?

[grimmie 186]

Why does he need 'saved"? He's not running for re-election, contrary to most Tea Bag sites.

[cvfd1399 0]

Because for some stupid fucking reasons america has become a popularity contest instead of focusing on making it work and fixing problems.