Saturday, June 25, 2011

61% Angry at the Media

So reports Rasmussen.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters are at least somewhat angry at the media, with 26% who are Very Angry. Thirty-six percent (36%) don’t share that anger, including 13% who are Not At All Angry at the media.
61% is a filibuster proof Senate.

The only slight silver lining is that more people (69%) are angry at the policies of the federal government than at the media.

Reporters seem clueless to the implications. No page 10 (not to mention page 1) stories on this. (Just did a search at the Oregonian and Associated Press sites, and not a peep on this.)

Think of the startling level of incompetence that would be involved if 61% of Americans were angry at their doctors. Not just dissatisfied, but angry. That would be a page 1 story. Further underlining why 61% are rightly angry at a media that picks and chooses its stories on the basis of personal bias.

3 comments:

  1. Jews In The American Media

    MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups.

    LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

    JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner

    NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News

    JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC

    DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News

    SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, “world’s biggest media giant” (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.

    MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.

    RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother)

    MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS

    DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS

    JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS

    DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS

    SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment

    LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment

    BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros.

    SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.

    HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films.

    BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment.

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  2. PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch’s News. Corp., owner of Fox TV

    MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his “mentor.”

    ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications.

    WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT.

    TOM FRIEDMAN, syndicated columnist for the NYT.

    CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring “anti-Israel media.”

    RICHARD COHEN, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post

    JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe

    NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Inst., regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

    ARIE FLEISCHER, Dubya’s press secretary.

    STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet’s first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.

    DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of “alternative weeklies.”

    DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund

    KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker

    BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment

    KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

    RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O’Reilly.

    TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.

    MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL

    WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner

    JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment

    JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2

    SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment

    GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment

    STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks

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  3. JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks

    DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks

    LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment

    JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment

    MAX MUTCHNICK, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”

    DAVID KOHAN, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”

    HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America

    AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures

    JOEL KLEIN, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann’s American operations

    ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications

    BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment

    IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications

    WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN’s Late Edition

    LARRY KING, host of Larry King Live

    TED KOPPEL, host of ABC’s Nightline

    ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN Reporter

    PAULA ZAHN, CNN Host

    MIKE WALLACE, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes

    BARBARA WALTERS, Host, ABC’s 20-20

    MICHAEL LEDEEN, editor of National Review

    BRUCE NUSSBAUM, editorial page editor, Business Week

    DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of

    CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post

    HOWARD FINEMAN, Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek

    WILLIAM KRISTOL, Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director
    Project for a New American Century (PNAC)

    RON ROSENTHAL, Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

    PHIL BRONSTEIN, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle,

    RON OWENS, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)

    JOHN ROTHMAN, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)

    MICHAEL SAVAGE, Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets

    MICHAEL MEDVED, Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations

    DENNIS PRAGER, Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.

    BEN WATTENBERG, Moderator, PBS Think Tank.

    ANDREW LACK, president of NBC

    DANIEL MENAKER, Executive Director, Harper Collins

    DAVID REMNICK, Editor, The New Yorker

    NICHOLAS LEHMANN, writer, the New York

    HENRICK HERTZBERG, Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker

    SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes.

    DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.

    PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s

    RALPH J. & BRIAN ROBERTS, Owners, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.

    LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group

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