Sunday, December 31, 2006

Media Bias? A tale of two reports on the same poll

One Poll, Two very different reports on it....
Interesting enough, they are both by the AP news service..
Its a perfect, almost textbook, example of how the news can be biased when reporting things.

Poll: Americans See Gloom, Doom in 2007

AP Poll: Americans Optimistic for 2007



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2 comments:

San Soucri said...

1/2 the United States will always see it one way, while the other 1/2 sees it the other.

Michael said...

I don't think it is always "equal" half's that see it one way and the other. Although we are approaching that level of division.

I don't think this is INTENTIONAL bias by the author, but the poll results were not as "Doom and Gloom" as the first article says it is.

I post it as an example of how bias sneaks in to every story.