Mondo Times Media Poll Archive

Media Poll Archive

• "Government should not decide what is aired on TV."
  
  
• "What passes for news today is opinion and soothsaying."
  
  
• "The influence of the established media is waning."
  
  
• "American election coverage is just gossip about celebrities."
  
  
• "American reporters are a threat to national security."
  
  
• "NBC exploited a mass murderer for ratings and profit."
  
  
• "Wikipedia provides balanced and reliable information."
  
  
• Which movie will win the 2007 Oscar for best picture?
  
  
• "Too much baloney is passed off as news."
  
  
• "Television is intellectual carbon monoxide."
  
  
• How often do you read your horoscope?
  
  
• "Watching war from a distance is damn good entertainment."
  
  
• "Television is just another appliance. It is a toaster with pictures."
  
  
• "Journalists should be on the side of the victims."
  
  
• "The commercials shown on TV are truthful and accurate."
  
  
• Are you willing to pay to read newspapers and magazines on the web?
  
  
• "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
  
  
• "Our best course of action is to turn off the TV."
  
  
• "Newspapers are a relic from the last century."
  
  
• "Television insulates us from the realities of the world."
  
  
• "News organizations usually get the facts straight."
  
  
• "The Internet gets its news from newspapers."
  
  
• "Journalists do not let facts get in the way of a good story."
  
  
• Who is the worst person of 2005?
  
  
• Who is the best person of 2005?
  
  
• "The Internet permits too much free speech."
  
  
• "Hollywood producers know that most of what they churn out is junk."
  
  
• "Journalists have been replaced on television by cheerleaders."
  
  
• Do you get most of your news in print, from radio/TV or on the Internet?
  
  
• Which comes first for newspapers today -- public trust or private profit?
  
  
• "Local television news is worthless."
  
  
• "Public support for the news media has all but evaporated."
  
  
• "For TV viewers, discerning real news from product pitches has never been harder."
  
  
• "All of us are dependent on the workings of a vibrant press."
  
  
• "It's not possible for TV networks to provide in-depth coverage of worldly events."
  
  
• "The popularity of the iPod is directly related to the crappiness of radio."
  
  
• Do American broadcast television stations meet their legal obligation to serve the public interest?
  
  
• "We don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."
  
  
• Do marketers and advertisers generally treat consumers with respect?
  
  
• "Opinion is driving out facts too often in most of what we see on television today."
  
  
• "Now journalism is as infected by the celebrity culture as every other institution."
  
  
• "Ongoing consolidation of media ownership threatens American democracy."
  
  
• How is the Internet affecting the amount of time you spend watching TV?
  
  
• "Probably 95% of ads on TV are too loud, silly, annoying, downright stupid and insulting to one's intelligence."
  
  
• What is the predominant bias of the American media?
  
  
• "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
  
  
• Does television news usually provide an accurate account of issues and events?
  
  
• "News organizations usually get the facts straight."
  
  
• "Most people use television as a means of turning their minds off, not on."
  
  
• "The mainstream press is pathetically out of touch with what people want to hear."
  
  
• "The dreadful quality of most commercial radio has alienated a lot of listeners."
  
  
• "The public service mission of the old "free press" has been replaced by the modern media imperative not to bore the audience."
  
  
• "The media's real business is to be provocative, to get ratings and headlines."
  
  
• Which one of these news organizations do you trust the most?
  
  
• Should the public know about the preferences, prejudices and allegiances of journalists and the news media?
  
  
• Has television erased the line between fact and fiction, such that news is entertainment and entertainment is news?
  
  
• Is the news side independent of the financial side in the news media?
  
  
• Journalists think of themselves as the public's watchdogs. Do you share that view?
  
  
• Do the news media usually act more like a watchdog or a lapdog?
  
  
• Which medium do you rely on most for news and information?
  
  
• Who\'s the worst TV journalist of them all?
  
  
• During wartime, should a combatant nation's media focus on supporting that nation's military efforts?
  
  
• Do you trust the news media, most of the time?
  
  
• In practice, does unbiased journalism exist?
  
  

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