GraniteGrok

All one has to do is watch how the MSM fawn all over Obama, leaving the former focus of their delight, Senator McCain, with the leavings of attention.

RASMUSSEN: "The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month." Gee, do you think? Plus this: "A separate survey released this morning also found that 50% of voters believe most reporters want to make the economy seem worse than it is. A plurality believes that the media has also tried to make the war in Iraq appear worse that it really is."

The problem for the MSM is that while they are puffing for Obama, the Dems in general, and much of the Liberal agenda, the general public is not stupid.  They KNOW this.  They UNDERSTAND that the tank is filled with so-called journalists.

How do I know these assertions? Simply look at the biz end with the quarterly earnings where newspapers are shedding subscribers and reporters faster than my greyhound ran to hide under the bed at the first clap of a summer thunderstorm.  I bet if you had a contest between eyeballs leaving the Big Three Newscasts and a drag racer, the latter would be coming up short.

So, which will come first - the peak oil decline of the Saudi fields or the collective clearing out of the "objective" media desks?

Objective - sure they are!

(H/T: Instapundit)

More from Yahoo News:

Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help John McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.

A plurality of Democrats--37%--say most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of the campaign. Twenty-seven percent (27%) believe most reporters are trying to help Obama and 21% in Obama's party think reporters are trying to help McCain. Among Republicans, 78% believe reporters are trying to help Obama and 10% see most offering unbiased coverage.

As for unaffiliated voters, 50% see a pro-Obama bias and 21% see unbiased coverage. Just 12% of those not affiliated with either major party believe the reporters are trying to help McCain. In a more general sense, 45% say that most reporters would hide information if it hurt the candidate they wanted to win. Just 30% disagree and 25% are not sure. Democrats are evenly divided as to whether a reporter would release such information while Republicans and unaffiliated voters have less confidence in the reporters.

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A separate survey released this morning also found that 50% of voters believe most reporters want to make the economy seem worse than it is. A plurality believes that the media has also tried to make the war in Iraq appear worse that it really is.

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These results are consistent with earlier surveys finding that large segments of the population believe the media is biased It is also clear that voters select their news sources in a partisan manner. During Election 2004, CNN viewers heavily favored John Kerry while Fox Fans preferred George W. Bush.

This national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports July 19, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.