New Poll Shows Americans Think the Media is a Much Greater Threat to Election Than Russian Hackers

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These are some pretty damning results for the mainstream media. Not only does the American public see the media as a bigger threat to election results than Russian hackers, it’s not even close.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Voters fear the media far more than Russian hackers when it comes to tampering with election results.

According to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, 46 percent of likely voters believe the news media is “the primary threat that might try to change the election results.”

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How Bloomberg Spun its Own Poll Data to Make Hillary Clinton Seem Inevitable

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Years ago, when I was an exchange student in the Soviet Union, a Russian friend explained how he got his news. 

“For news about Russia, Radio Liberty,” he said. “For news about America, Soviet newspapers.” He smiled. “Countries lie about themselves, tell truth about others.”

American media consumers are fast approaching the same absurd binary reality. We now have one set of news outlets that gives us the bad news about Democrats, and another set of news outlets bravely dedicated to reporting the whole truth about Republicans.

Like the old adage about quarterbacks – if you think you have two good ones, you probably have none.

– From Matt Taibbi’s excellent article: The Summer of the Shill

A couple of days ago, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson published a very interesting article which examined how Bloomberg News egregiously spun the results of its recent presidential poll.

She notes:

Is Hillary Clinton squashing Donald Trump into oblivion in the polls? Or is her lead over him perilously shrinking? One thing we know is: there are countless ways to spin a poll. Consider the case of selective reporting on the most recent Bloomberg national poll.

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So How Bad is Media (and Social Media) Bias in This Election?

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Earlier today, I came across an interesting article about media (and social media) bias related to the 2016 Presidential election. The piece was published in the Observer and titled, Tech Companies Apple, Twitter, Google, and Instagram Collude to Defeat Trump. Here are a few excerpts:

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Video of the Day – CNN Reporter Cut Off As She Critiques Hillary Clinton

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So did CNN intentionally pull the plug on its reporter, or was it just a convenient coincidence.

I’ll let you decide.

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