Toplines - Media Bias - January 12-13, 2010
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National Survey of 1,000 Likely
Voters
Conducted January 12-13, 2010
By Rasmussen Reports
1* When covering a political
campaign, do most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage or do they try to
help the candidate they want to win?
20% Try to offer
unbiased coverage
72% Try to help the candidate they want to
win
8% Not sure
2* Is the
average reporter more liberal than you are, more conservative, or about the
same as you ideologically?
51% More
liberal
18% More conservative
20% About the same as your ideologically
11% Not sure
3* Does the news media have too
much power and influence over government decisions, too little power, or about
the right amount of power?
67%
Too much power
8% Too little power
19%
About the right amount of power
6% Not sure
4* Whose judgment do you trust more when it comes to the important issues
affecting the nation-- yourself or the average reporter?
85% Yourself
6% Average reporter
9% Not sure
5* What matters most in terms of
winning elections, having friendly reporters or raising a lot of campaign
contributions?
32% Friendly
reporters
41%
Raising a lot of campaign contributions
27%
Not sure
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error,
+/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence