By Dave Andrusko
I was about to write about the results of a Rasmussen Report survey that “62% of Likely U.S. voters think the problem of bias in the news media is getting worse” and then I ran across this!
Laurence Tribe is a University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University who moonlights as a compulsive producer of tweets. Check this out”
I’ve never before seen or heard of a sitting SCOTUS justice stumping for a political candidate before. Have you? Please RT if this seems wildly injudicious and unjudicial to you . ..
He’s bashing Justice Thomas who is in a photograph with Hershel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate from Georgia.
Now this is, as they say, too good to check. But…really. Justice Thomas on the campaign trail with a senatorial candidate? Does that sound even marginally plausible? Of course not. Here’s the truth:
Old photo: April, 2022 when Walker was in DC to receive his Horatio Alger Award. Thomas is a member of the HA Org., and took photos with many of the recipients.
Just guessing but I feel confident in saying don’t look for a correction any time soon,
Back to Rasmussen Report…
As anyone and pretty much everyone knows, the media is absolutely tone-deaf. It’s as if the lower their credibility, the prouder they are. Here’s the opening:
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Most voters still believe “fake news” is a serious problem, and don’t trust the political news they get from the media.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. voters think the problem of bias in the news media is getting worse. Just 10% believe the media bias problem is getting better, while 26% say it’s about the same as usual.
In case you believe Rasmussen Report’s survey is a outlier, Marc Thiessen wrote a column on this very topic less than a month ago:
In 1977, Gallup found that 72 percent of Americans had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust and confidence in the news media. But this month, Gallup found that just 16 percent of U.S. adults say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers, and just 11 percent have confidence in television news. This collapse in confidence stretches across ideological lines but is most pronounced on the right. Just 5 percent of Republicans said they had confidence in newspapers (compared to 35 percent of Democrats) while just 8 percent of Republicans had confidence in TV news (compared to 20 percent of Democrats).
Conclusion?
The public is spot on: media bias, already rampant, is getting worse.