CBS Ignores Broad Public Support for Tax Cuts in Recent Poll

Weekly Example of Media Bias   —   Posted on February 11, 2009

A CBS News poll conducted February 2 through February 4 found that 62 percent of Americans believe that tax cuts would do more to get the country out of recession, while only 16 percent thought government spending would. However, when Evening News anchor Katie Couric touted other results from that same poll on Thursday, February 5 she managed to leave out that particular finding. That poll finding has not been mentioned in any CBS News coverage since the poll’s release on February 5. Instead, Couric focused on the aspect of the poll that claimed that 51 percent of Americans support the so-called “stimulus” bill being pushed by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress. …
Read the CBS poll results at cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_020509.pdf.

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