It is a question that has often been asked, "Does the media have a political bias leaning in one way or the other?"

In a survey conducted Feb. 20-26, 2007 by Zogby.com the vast majority of the 1,757 American voters believed the majority of the media has a liberal bias. 83% of the likely voter’s surveyed said the media is biased in one way or another, when only 11% believe the media doesn't take political sides.

The survey was taken online at the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet is based at George Washington University located in Washington D.C.

Nearly two-thirds of the people surveyed who detected bias in the media (64%) to be exact said the media leans left, while only (28%) said they see a conservative bias on their TV sets and in their newspaper columns.

Out of the Republicans surveyed 97% said the media is very liberal, two-thirds of Independents said the same thing, but less than one in four independents (23%) claimed they saw a conservative bias. Many people would stop there and not give all of the facts. However I am not like most people, I am not a liberal. Out of the Democrats surveyed just two-thirds were certain the media skewed right and 17% of the Dem's said the bias favored the left.

Source: http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1262

If the truth were known, most Liberals are in denial to the notion that the media has a bias. Why? Because they do not want people to think that they have an unfair advantage. Seems everyone turns to PMSNBC, ABC, CBS and all of the other alphabet channels for their news updates about everything in their day to day lives ranging from the war on terror to the weather and the election. They gut the news with a Liberal twist. In this country there used to be a day when people could trust their news broadcasters like, Walter Cronkite the voice of America. Unlike the idiots we have today such as Dan Rather, Matt Lauer, Peter Jennings and don't let me forget Keith Olbermann who I believe is the biggest liberal idiot of them all. Unfortunately some people feel as though they can still trust the media to give you the whole story without a bias one way or another. But sadly the days of trust in the media are over, according to Gallup polls people are slowly loosing trust in their bias media news reports.

But how do I know? How can I be so certain as to make such a claim or accusation like, "the Media has a Liberal agenda"? How can I say such a thing with out having any facts? Or having only one survey of nearly 2,000 American voters? The answer is I can't state my argument merely on opinions so here are the black and white facts:

"Journalists in the mainstream media are prominently liberal." That’s what the 1996 Freedom Forum, an independent foundation which studies issues relating to the media and the Roper Center, an opinion research firm. Prominent liberal journalist Evan Thomas of News Week acknowledges the bias in the media. In 1996 Thomas made an appearance on the syndicated round table, "Inside Washington" and said, "There is a liberal bias. It’s demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85% of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the educators and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias. There is a bias at News Week the magazine I work for. Most of the people who work at News Week live on the upper West Side in New York and they have a liberal bias."

Don't believe me? Don't believe Evan Thomas? Well consider these poll results from the 1992 Presidential election.

85% of journalists voted for Bill Clinton compared to the 43% of non-journalists voters who voted for Clinton.

7% of journalists voted for George H.W. Bush compared to the 37% of non-journalists voters who did.

50% of journalists said they were Democrats. 4% of journalists said they were Republicans.

If the truth were known, the political leaders of the main stream media or the liberal media are way out of touch with mainstream Americans they are way out of touch with traditional America.

In his New York times best seller "Bias" Bernard Goldberg, former CBS correspondent, documents the main stream media's left wing bias. He writes, "a pole back in 1972 showed that of the reporters who voted 70% went for McGovern, the most liberal presidential nominee in recent memory, while 25% went for Nixon, the same Richard Nixon who carried every single state in the union except Massachusetts."

In 1985 the LA Times conducted a nationwide survey of approximately 3,000 journalists and the same number of people in the general public to gauge their stances on important issues:

23% of the public said they were liberal. 55% of journalists said they were liberal.

56% of the public favored Ronald Reagan when only 30% of journalists favored Reagan.

49% of the public were pro abortion; 82% of journalists were pro choice.

74% the public were for prayer in public schools compared to the 47% of journalists who were supportive of it.

56% of the public were for affirmative action; 81% of journalists were.

75% of the public were for the death penalty; 47% of journalists were for the death penalty.

50% of the public were for stricter handgun control; 78% of journalists were.

Not to mention late ABC anchor Peter Jennings admitted a liberal bias, "Historically in the media, it has been more of a liberal persuasion for many years. It has taken us a long time, too long in my view, to have vigorous conservative voices heard as widely in the media as they now are."

In his book "weapons of mass destruction" Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, chronicles media bias with regard to taxation, environmental issues, gun control, religion and abortion.

Bozell references the three main broadcast networks’ coverage of the Bush tax cuts proposal of January 2003. Between Jan. 2nd and Jan. 15th Jan. of that year, he had his colleagues found 28 stories about the proposal aired on ABC, CBS and NBC. In these he says, "the liberal media was repeated over and over. Bush’s tax cuts comforts only the rich." They cant help but try to put a spin on something good our president does because he is a Republican. And to the liberal media President Bush is the enemy!

Americans trust of the media continues to decline. A July 2003, Pew Center report showed 53% of Americans "believe that news organizations are politically biased." And "twice as many say news organizations are liberal."

On top of all this compelling evidence that the media has an untrustworthy liberal bias an Aug. 2003 Gallup survey showed 46% of Americans, when asked how much trust they have in the news media, their responces ranged from, "not very much" to "none at all."