it isn't just you - everyone smells it

Rasmussen Reports:

Just 17% of voters nationwide believe that most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of election campaigns. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that four times as many—68%--believe most reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win.

The perception that reporters are advocates rather than observers is held by 82% of Republicans, 56% of Democrats, and 69% of voters not affiliated with either major party. The skepticism about reporters cuts across income, racial, gender, and age barriers.

This is the world changing.

This is where we choose how and where we get our news - what sources we think we can trust, and what it means.

This is us not having the options we'd like. What will we do for solutions?

If anything is ever going to change, it's going to be us doing it. Not the media. Not the politicians. It starts with us.

We all hate not having a reliable news media. What are we going to do about it?

Oh, and as if we didn't already know this:

Voters have little doubt as to who is benefitting from the media coverage this year—Barack Obama. Fifty-four percent (54%) say Obama has gotten the best coverage so far. Twenty-two percent (22%) say McCain has received the most favorable coverage while 14% say that Hillary got the best treatment.

At the other extreme, 43% say Clinton received the worst treatment from the media. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say the media was roughest on McCain and only 15% thought the media coverage was most unfair to Obama.