[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19592]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         POLL FINDS MEDIA BIAS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this week no single media 
organization will receive the media bias award. However, the public has 
made clear its views of the media as an institution. The American 
people feel standards of journalism have eroded. Advocacy has replaced 
objectivity.
  After conducting an opinion poll, the Gallup organization recently 
found that fewer than half of Americans have confidence in the media's 
ability to fairly report the news. And an astounding three times as 
many people believe the media is more liberal than conservative. To 
quote Gallup, ``Media Credibility Reaches Lowest Point in Three 
Decades.''
  Mr. Speaker, what we should expect from the media, as both Americans 
and consumers of news, are the facts, objectively and fairly reported.

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