A national poll finds most registered voters agree with what Donald Trump has been declaring in this presidential election: media are biased, favoring Hillary Clinton, notes Grumpy Editor.
A Gallup poll tallies 52 percent of media are biased in favor of Clinton while eight percent are biased in favor of Trump.
Meanwhile, the poll also counts 38 percent saying media show no bias toward either candidate, while two percent have no opinion.
The poll echoes what Trump has been working into his speeches for weeks --- simply that journalists are dishonest.
He cites an "important issue for Americans is integrity in journalism."
Trump hastens to add, "These people are among the most dishonest people I’ve ever met, spoken to, done business with. These are the most dishonest people. There has never been dishonesty like we’ve seen in this election."
A common denominator for many of today's journalists is simply that they have not received full journalism basic training. That includes being fair and balanced or showing neutrality in reporting.
That's because many of those covering politics today are college graduates with political science degrees.
IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE...
The 2016 World Series may be over but Las Vegas oddsmakers already are zeroing in on next year's World Series, giving last week's winning National League Chicago Cubs 3-1 odds, followed by 10-1 odds to the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals. And how does last week's losing American League Cleveland Indians fare? The team is 12-1...And with this year's World Series, how did the TV viewing audience rate since there was no New York or Los Angeles team involved? Game 7 in the series reached 40 million viewers, making it the most watched game since 1991. The World Series as a whole averaged 23.4 million viewers, most since the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.
Down days in print advertising revenue hit key newspapers. The New York Times Co. reports third quarter earnings falls sharply as print advertising sinks 19 percent while print ad revenue in the latest quarter for Gannett Co. slips 15 percent and Tronc Inc., owner of Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, among others, reports a 13 percent decline in print ad revenue...The Wall Street Journal next Monday will unveil a new format in its print edition that combines several sections while reducing the size of some coverage areas as the paper copes with an accelerating industrywide decline in print ads.
President Barack Obama last week grants clemency to 72 additional federal inmates. That follows 98 the previous week and ups his clemency to 944 people, including 324 serving life sentences…Thomson Reuters plans to cut 2,000 jobs and take a charge of up to $250 million as the news and financial information company seeks to streamline its business...With media overly occupied with election news, being overlooked is North Korea's plans to launch additional intermediate-range ballistic missiles...People's Viennaline, an Austrian airline, claims it has initiated the world's shortest regular international connection --- an eight-minute hop across Lake Constance, connecting St. Gallen-Altenrhein in Switzerland with Friedrichshafen in southern Germany…Next Monday Tucker Carlson, 47, takes over the hour slot on Fox News formerly held by Greta van Susteren, who left the network in September.
Who's afraid?
A Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 3 (2016) provides an unprecedented look into the fears of average Americans. Here are the top 10 fears:
|
Fear |
Fear Domain |
% Afraid or Very Afraid |
|
Corrupt government officials |
Government |
60.6 |
|
Terrorist attack |
Manmade Disasters |
41 |
|
Not having enough money for the future |
Economic |
39.9 |
|
Terrorism |
Crime |
38.5 |
|
Government restrictions on firearms and ammunition |
Government |
38.5 |
|
People I love dying |
Illness and Death |
38.1 |
|
Economic/financial collapse |
Economic |
37.5 |
|
Identity theft |
Crime |
37.1 |
|
People I love becoming seriously ill |
Illness and Death |
35.9 |
|
The Affordable Health Care Act/ObamaCare |
Government |
35.5 |
See the full list of 79 fears at:
blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2016/10/11/americas-top-fears-2016
Sad story out of Waco, Texas.
A couple, married for 74 years, died only 10 hours apart last week.
High school sweethearts, Leonard Cherry, 95, had been in hospice care only days before his death while Hazel Cherry, 93, moved into a nursing home next door.
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