National Journal - poll for week of 11/20/09
Where Do Bloggers Get Their News?
Left and Right On The media Landscape, Robert Gills and Whether Newspapers Should Go Nonprofit
National Journal has done a poll of bloggers for quite some time. To review, they ask a number of bloggers from the Left and the Right the same questions and then contrast them. I will say that I've been watching this for a while and doing this for the first time, it was interesting.
Note: yeah, I was going to there - it seems that Newspapers ARE going non-profit all by themselves without any help from anyone else, especially Government. That said this was actually about the legal use of that term.
1. Rank the importance of each the following six media, 1 to 5, as tools you use to stay informed. (With 1 representing "not important" and 5 representing "very important.")
Again, go to the link to see the categories and the comments - is a different ranking of who goes where for their news and the weighting given to each. It is clear that the Left prefers the Old Media, however...
2. What grade would you give to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs?
Right: D+
Left B-
Comments by the bloggers, as always, are quite amusing...
3. Do think it's a good idea for struggling newspapers to become nonprofits in order to receive tax breaks?
Right:
- Yes: 15.8%
- No: 84.2%
Left:
- Yes: 68.8%
- No: 18.8%
- Not Sure: 12.5%
Comments very informative
My answers after the jump:
1. Rank the importance of each the following six media, 1 to 5, as tools you use to stay informed. (With 1 representing "not important" and 5 representing "very important.")
1 2 3 4 5
Web sites/blogs 5
Newspapers (in print) 3
Magazines (in print) 1
Television 3
Radio
Twitter/Facebook/Digg/social media 1
[Hmm, I do believe that I need to work on my FB involvement...]
Comment/other::
On the web is where its at - speed of access, speed of update, and able to cross-reference stories and data easily and quickly to find the truth.
2. What grade would you give to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs?
C
Let's face it, the ideology he has to defend has never proven to work -
and his boss's action ain't helping much. I think we can all point to
people who have done the position better.
3. Do think it's a good idea for struggling newspapers to become nonprofits in order to receive tax breaks?
No
It's bad enough that the MSM has become politicized by inbreeding in the
newsrooms; giving rich donors on EITHER side of the aisle an easier
chance at directing the news for the money given is a Real Bad Idea.
