Bernie Goldberg: Trust in Media Low Due to Love Affair With Obama
As NewsBusters reported last Friday, America's trust in the media has fallen to new lows. Appearing on Fox News's “O'Reilly Factor” Tuesday, political commentator Bernie Goldberg said it was because of the media's love affair with Barack Obama (video follows with transcript and commentary): BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the “Weekdays with Bernie” segment tonight, a couple of new media polls to tell you all about. According to Gallup, 55 percent of Americans do not — do not trust — the American media. Forty-four percent say they do. One percent apparently don't know what the media is. Also 47 percent believe the media is biased to the left. Thirteen percent say it's biased to the right. These must be communist people. And 36 percent opine the media is not biased at all. Another survey, this one by the Pew Research Center. Sixty-six percent of Americans say that TV news is their primary source of information. And preferences break down this way. FOX News Channel leads all TV news outlets with 19 percent of Americans saying they get their news mostly from us. Local news second. Sixteen percent dialed into that. CNN 15 percent. NBC News 10. ABC News 8. CBS 7. At the bottom, MSNBC, 6 percent. All Fidel Castro supporters. Joining us now from North Carolina to analyze, purveyor of BernardGoldberg.com, Mr. Goldberg. First of all, what happened to CBS News, your old employer? That used to be the gold standard. BERNIE GOLDBERG, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: The key words are “used to be.”
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