NBC News Skews Its Own Poll

NBC News Skews Its Own Poll

 

In the jaded tradition of the New York Times’ unstated motto of printing all the news it sees fit to print and trashing all the rest, NBC News spinmeisters managed to distort the results of a poll it conducted in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal.

While headlining the outcome, “America’s Fed Up: Obama Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low, Poll Shows” and citing such results as, “Six in 10 Americans are dissatisfied with the state of the U.S. economy, more than 70 percent believe the country is headed in the wrongc direction” with “President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating hitting a new low at 40 percent, and a mere 14 percent of the public giving Congress a thumbs up,” NBC went on to downplay its own headline.

Instead, the network focused on the “lingering” consequences of the Great Recession rather than on the causes of that lingering, Obama and his failed economic policies, and on what type of posters people would carry.

The telephone survey of a thousand registered adults was conducted by Democratic pollster Peter Hart and Republican pollster Bill McInturff over the course of five days (July 30-August 3, margin of error 3.1%) yet the NBCNews.com report by Mark Murray ignored their most salient findings.

In a transparent effort to deflect as much of the blame as possible for American discontent from Obama, Murray emphasizes the disaffection with Republicans and Congress, (“But if the president’s numbers are bad, Congress’ are even worse”). . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38420.)