***FLASH*** NEW POLL SHOWS MEDIA PERCEIVED AS UNETHICAL, BIASED TOWARD DEMOCRATS...

DUH! Like any of us really needed a poll to inform us of this little well-known factoid. The only way that you could be in any way oblivious to something that is so very obvious, the being the fact that today's state controlled media complex has now officially morphed into what is now nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party is to be dumb as a brick. No offense to bricks everywhere. So it is then that I'm afraid that journalists everywhere who may be in need of an ego boost regarding their chosen profession as being some lofty endeavor for the good of all mankind, won’t like their reflection in this latest poll from The Hill about how they are perceived by the general public. Because it's in the results of that poll that almost 70 percent of likely voters characterize the Fourth Estate as biased, and 57 percent contend that reporters are either very unethical, or at least somewhat so. Now there's a resounding endorsement for those who are supposed to be our stalwart defenders of the Republic. Not!

What’s more, the growing coziness between members of the press and the Democrats is becoming readily apparent to a growing number of people, with 46 percent of the 1,000 likely voters polled July 21 saying the media favor Democrats and make very few attempts to hide that fact. Another 22 percent detect a Republican tilt, and 28 percent say the media porridge is just right. And reporters are just too cozy with the politicians they cover, according to 44 percent of the poll participants, while 22 percent disagree. Men are much more inclined than women to cite what's been described as being the coochie-coo factor, with half of the male respondents saying they’re too close, compared with 38 percent of the female participants. I am curious though about who it is that sees a tilt toward the Republicans. Are these morons referring to Fox News, who for no other reason than that they have the nerve to present both sides of an issue and that somehow makes them right-wing ? So if I get this right, whenever you show even the slightest objectivity, that automatically makes you biased toward Republicans.


Regarding the level of ethics possessed by our fine press corps, only 39 percent of those taking part in the poll find the news media as being somewhat or very ethical, according to the Hill, which notes that the Pulse Opinion Research poll was taken as the now-shuttered News of the World phone-hacking scandal continued to unfold in the United Kingdom and U.S. politicians, primarily Democrats eager to take down Fox News, have called for an investigation of parent News Corp.’s actions here. The Hill’s analysis notes what it describes as “intriguing patterns” in the findings, in which centrists and liberals don’t use as broad a brush to paint the media, while conservatives take out their poison pens. Not sure what they're getting at there, but regardless, one-third of moderates say the media report appropriately on politicians, while only 17 percent of conservatives hold that same opinion. However, almost 40 percent of centrists detect a Democratic bias in the media, compared with only 19 percent toward Republicans. Again, just where is that anyone sees a bias in favor of Republicans?


So here we have yet another poll telling us something that just about all of us already knew. And this perception that most people have is far from being anything that's new. But even though the major players in the state controlled media complex are well aware of the fact of how they are viewed by a growing number of Americans, and have been for some time, they continue to live in a weird form of denial. Far from doing anything to alter that perception, over time they seem to have become even more determined in their biased approach to the "news." Today's media has essentially degenerated to the point where they no longer fill any sort of a useful function or purpose. They might as well being the payroll of the DNC. And I'm sure some of them most likely are. It's just a very sad state of affairs that those who comprise what used to be referred as the "mainstream" media are now considered to be so far out of the "mainstream" as to make them no longer a reliable source of useful information. They have done, and continue to do, a great disservice to the American people. And for what, exactly?