Yeah, I know, rhetorical question because up to now, the answer is a big “NO!”. I’m not even sure that they care that they turn off a large percentage of their potential viewers who have watched them go Leftward these past few years. From the Washington Examiner, this pull quote says it all:
…Bias in the polarized nation might also play a role. A Pew study out last week said that left-leaning reporters are OK with bias, while news consumers are not, for example.
…Confidence that TV and print news media are delivering trustworthy news has plummeted to the lowest level tallied by Gallup in nearly 50 years.
The pollster said those expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in print news are 16% and just 11% for TV news.
And WMUR is becoming that 11% poster, child. Certainly from my side of the aisle but to get down to 11% means EVERYONE detests your reporting and it isn’t just because of ideological differences.
So when that news editor in that illiberal bastion known as the news studio is stacking up the stories and the writers of the segments are pounding their keyboards, that 11% result seems to have NO impact on them at all. Look, I watch WMUR news shows (except for the sports – I don’t care about sports anymore) but it’s clear by their story selection, placement within the lineup, and the amount of time for each story’s “package”, where their bias shows. VERY rarely will they realize that Conservatives (especially GraniteGrok readers!) just don’t bother with them at all.
Here’s that Gallup polling:
And they have no one to blame but themselves. Even Fox News, which was created when it was clear that 50% of the marketplace was underserved, has been forgetting that from time to time. Study after study has shown that news rooms are almost exclusively Left – see any report on where the reporters/staff get outed via their political donations. Those donations are almost exclusively to Democrats while only single digits, often only 2-3%, go go Republicans.
And what these people, who keep pounding their chests like the Pharisees and Saducees of old saying “what a good boy am I!”, don’t understand is that these donation selections come out in their reporting.
After all, how often have YOU been contacted to be asked “how we doing?”. And if you have, did it make any difference?
