Gallup recently released a poll showing just 8% of Americans have a great deal of trust in the media, you don’t have to look any farther than the recent terrorist attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya to understand why. A few reporters like Eli Lake at Newsweek have doggedly pursued the story and […]
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Pollster: Media Polls Biased Against Republicans
I don’t put a lot faith in polls and this is why: Political polls conducted for most media organizations often are biased against Republicans, says Kellyanne Conway, one of the most respected GOP pollsters. As a result, Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain probably is exaggerated and is contributing unfairly to his momentum, says Conway, […]
Palin Now More Accessible than Obama?
The conventional wisdom is that Sarah Palin doesn’t make herself available to the national news media, but as this CBS News story shows that simply isn’t true. It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign […]
Was She or Wasn’t She???
All morning long I’ve been hearing and reading media reports quoting an “unnamed republican source” as saying that “the team assigned to vet … [Sarah] Palin in Alaska” didn’t get there until the day before John McCain “stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice.” I’d like to know exactly who this source is and […]