[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12159]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            AMERICANS BELIEVE MEDIA IS INTENTIONALLY BIASED

  (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, Americans are increasingly skeptical 
about the national news they receive. A new study released this month 
conducted by the First Amendment Center and USA Today found that only 
24 percent of Americans believe the media try to report the news 
without bias. This is a record low since the question was first asked a 
decade ago.
  Mr. Speaker, 70 percent of respondents believe that news reports are 
intentionally biased. This represents a 15 percent increase just since 
last year. Millennials are even more suspicious about the news. Only 7 
percent of Americans 18 to 21 years old said that the media report news 
objectively.
  Media bias is both real and unfortunate. Americans will continue to 
reject the bias of the national liberal media until the media stops 
telling them what to think.

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