Republicans and independents less likely to believe what reporters say than democrats, and men moreso than women-Rasmussen

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"Mainstream voters are more than three times as likely as those in the Political Class to view the average reporter as more liberal than they are."...

6/22/11, "46% Say Average Reporter Is More Liberal Than They Are," Rasmussen

Poll dates, June 20-21, 2011

"Republicans and voters not affiliated with either of the major parties feel much more strongly than Democrats that most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republicans and 58% of unaffiliated voters think most reporters would hold back news that might hurt a candidate they wanted to win,

• but a plurality (43%) of Democrats disagrees....

Male voters are more skeptical than women voters of reporters’ integrity and also feel more strongly that the average reporter is more liberal than they are. Younger voters are less likely then their elders to think reporters are more liberal.

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of political conservatives think the average reporter is more liberal than they are. Among liberals, 38% think the average reporter is more conservative than they are, while 31% believe their views are about the same.

Seventy-three percent (73%) of GOP voters and 47% of unaffiliateds say the average reporter is more liberal than they are,

• a view shared by just 20% of Democrats.

Mainstream voters are more than three times as likely as those in the Political Class to view the average reporter as more liberal than they are. The majority of Mainstream voters think most reporters try to help their favorite candidate and will hold back information that might hurt that candidate. Most Political Class voters

• don’t believe that to be true.

Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters said in an April 2010 survey that media bias is a bigger problem in politics today than big campaign contributions.

In mid-January, 56% of voters said the news coverage of the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others in Arizona focused too much on the political implications.

“Liberal” remains the most unpopular political label, while being called a “conservative”

• is a net plus for a candidate.

Just before Election Day in November 2008, 51% of all voters believed most reporters were trying to help Barack Obama win the presidency....

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 20-21, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology."...

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6/23/11, "Survey: Voters think most reporters are liberal, try to help candidates they favor," Jim Romenesko, Poynter.org

"Rasmussen Reports

"The Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz wrote about the Rasmussen Reports founder last June:

'A co-founder of the sports network ESPN and former play-by-play broadcaster, Scott Rasmussen is an articulate and frequent guest on Fox News and other outlets, where his nominally nonpartisan data is often cited to support Republican talking points. In October, he hired his own communications director to handle the daily deluge of press calls.'"

via Romenesko