70 percent of Americans believe journalists want Obama to win

I've been thinking of the media's current represention of both candidates and how the media is viewed liberal.

Just how many people believe the media is biased towards to the candidates?

According to the Pew Research Center, "By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4."

Eight percent of Americans say there isn't favoritism among journalists, and thirteen percent say they don't know which candidate most reporters support.

What's so surprising about this poll is that the margin is significantly higher than in previous elections. As compared to the 2004 election, the margin was 50%-22%, democrat to republican.

I think the media is doing a decent job at representing both candidates. Yes, sometimes there is the occasional misrepresentation, but that opinion can go either way.

If you read a recent column by Slate's “nonliberal” Jack Schafer, you’ll discover his view of working in the liberally dominated profession and why he’s not complaining. While a majority of reporters and editors are liberal, Schafer, a political minority at Slate, points that conservatives fill the commentariat in the way liberals fill mainstream reporting.

In Schafer's "The Liberal Media and How to Stop it," he writes, “The best press criticism isn't a column or a moan of disgust into a TV camera. It's writing a better story.”

If conservatives think there is a media bias towards liberal candidates and ideas, then they need to be writing the stories as well. Maybe then the American view of journalists will decrease that 61 percent candidate difference.