This is one of those "Duh!" stories that one sees periodically in the press, but, according to Zogby International, the vast majority of Americans think the MSM is biased and most of those think it is liberally biased.
The vast majority of American voters believe media bias is alive and well – 83% of likely voters said the media is biased in one direction or another, while just 11% believe the media doesn’t take political sides, a recent IPDI/Zogby Interactive poll shows...
Nearly two-thirds of those online respondents who detected bias in the media (64%) said the media leans left, while slightly more than a quarter of respondents (28%) said they see a conservative bias on their TV sets and in their column inches.
The poll also reports that 97% of Republicans surveyed think the media is liberally biased, along with 2/3 of independents.
Look for a flurry of liberal blog posts saying that this is just another indication of how out of touch most Americans are with reality, and that corporate ownership of media outlets means that we only think MSM is liberal. These types of arguments are available anywhere on the web, usually backed by a link to Common Dreams or something.
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