Media bias

Differnt news stations, radio stations and newspapers conduct polls daily concering political issues. However, most people have begun to realize that bias is an issue that is present within these polls because some media outlets lean more left or right than others. In a new gallup poll, only 45% of Americans say that they have trust in the media reporting the news fully. 43% of those polled said that feel that the media is to liberal versus the 15% that say that the media is to conservative. In addittion, they found that, "Democrats, nonwhites and those with high school education or less place the most trust in the media followed by liberals and women aged 18-29." This speaks a lot for media reporting. They should make an important note to have their reporting be advantageous to all and not swayed in one direction or the other. Because of bias in reporting, it would almost be an accurate assumption to say that how the media words and conducts their polls is also bias. For example, on my last blog I discussed the implication of the word "choice" in regards to Obama's healthcare policy. When one media outlet included the word "choice" and one media outlet just said public option (vs. public option choice) the results of the survey varied. How a media station conducts and words their polls can reflect somewhat on their bias and what answers they hope to extract from the results.