Overwhelming Majority Think Media Encourage Political Division
On Sunday, I examined the causes of the nation's toxic political atmosphere and amongst other things accused the press of fanning the fires of discontent.
Two days later, an ABC News/Yahoo News poll reported by Michael Calderone found 63 percent of Americans believe the mainstream media are more interested in encouraging political division than cooperation between the Parties:
Just 30 percent of respondents believe the mainstream media is interested in political cooperation, according to a new ABC News/ Yahoo! News poll; 63 percent say reporters help stoke division.
Journalists have long been criticized for chasing after scandals and controversy. But the poll is noteworthy for showing just how much the public considers the media a factor in creating the current divisiveness in American politics.
Partisan talkers didn't fare much better than mainstream reporters. Conservative radio hosts also clocked in at 30 percent in terms of cooperation, with 61 percent saying they help foster division. Cable news programs came in at 29 percent for cooperation, 59 percent for division.
ABC on Tuesday published its own analysis as well as a PDF file of the polling data with questions. Interestingly, the only names in the questionnaire were Barack Obama's and Sarah Palin's.
Why might that be? After all, Palin is neither in nor running for office this year.
If you wanted to look at how the public viewed the cooperative versus divisive nature of powerful people in the land, why not ask what respondents felt about the current Vice President, Speaker of the House, and Senate Majority leader?
And they wonder why 63 percent of the country feel the mainstream media are encouraging political division.
- Noel Sheppard's blog
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<eyeroll>
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 2:25pm.
They had to do a POLL to realize this???
Sheesh.
Slow day?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 2:29pm.
Must have been a slow news day or something.
-Jon
"If it bleeds...
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 2:32pm.
...it leads." Why would anyone care about a political news story that didn't have acrimony?
One heartbeat away, remember?
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 2:33pm.
"Why might that be?"
Because they're still trying to create division. You do remember when Sarah was "one heartbeat away" from the Presidency, right? Apparently they believe that Sarah will become the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and they want to start their anti-campaign early.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
MSM is the main cause of the "hateful" division..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 3:04pm.
MSM is the main cause of the "hateful" political division in today's America. They are not simply encouraging it; rather they are instigating it - promoting it - causing it - loving it.
That is really a no-brainer.
Well, other than Obama and his spokespersons..
.. and the likes of Grayson, Franken, Pelosi, Pete Stark, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters ...
(;~/ gary
MSM promotes political partisanship?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 5:16pm.
You're kidding!
BTW, remember way back in the first Reagan campaign, or maybe in GHWB's first campaign, about half-way through the long, hot, boring summer there'd be opinion stories in the newspapers (remember those things?) and on TV about "reporting the issues, not the horse race"? Remember that? One commentator would raise the issue, two or three would chime in in support. And then, two days later, they' be right back telling us that Quayle's "potatoe" blunder would cost Bush 2 or 3 percentage points, etc.
The media have relentlessly propelled "horse race" analyses of the races, which encourage readers and viewers to think in terms of winning and strategizing, which inevitably leads to thinking of which team you support rather than which policies you support.
It's a lot easier for television pundits to yell "net nuts" or "wing roots" and to feed the insatiable appetite of the contrived yelling matches on cabal new networks, than it is to give careful and thoughtful study of the policy positions of the candidates.
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