The Media's Conservative Bias

by BooMan
Mon Oct 8th, 2007 at 01:50:24 PM EST

Gallup Polls discovers that a plurality (45%) of Americans still think the national media is too liberal rather than too conservative (18%). Republicans overwhelmingly (77%) feel this way, but so do a plurality (43%) of independents. Even more bizarre, a majority (58%) of Democrats think the media's partisan balance is just about right.

The right has been railing about liberal bias in the media for forty years and it has clearly had an enduring effect on public perceptions. But the l'affair Lewinsky, the Bush Era, and the rise of the Blogosphere have exposed example after example of conservative bias. This has been captured in the Gallup poll...but barely.