Terrye

most people think the press is not only biased, they think it is liberal

I think the answer to this seeming contradiction is that most people aren’t “liberal.”

People who are self-identified as liberal or left often (always?) believe the media is conservative, or, alternatively, that the press is simply “mainstream” and there is no liberal bias.

Hence the blog refrain: “What liberal media?”

but I think they said that only 25% of the people asked said they believed what they saw or read in the press.

I don’t remember, either, but it’s huge.

Huge numbers of people don’t believe what they read in the papers, and equally huge numbers of people don’t hold the press in high esteem.