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Media coverage of presidential race fair, balanced?

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    Jim Angle reports from Washington

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A favorite target of conservatives is the so called liberal media however is chief national correspondent Jim Angle tells us some within the media.

Are now saying coverage isn't always as -- as it should be.

Polls -- all -- show the credibility of the media has plummeted in recent decades a new Fox News poll asks which presidential candidate people believe members of the media want to win.

The results are striking with 61%.

Say neighborly reporters -- mr.

Obama to win 50% of Democrats said that and 74% of Republicans.

Only 15% said reporters -- mr.

Romney including 17% of Democrats and 15% of Republicans.

This -- further confirmation of what some White House reporters themselves have recently said.

But the media helped.

It's also the you know I didn't think we covered the -- it was especially -- either Hillary Clinton or John McCain.

Our job -- to -- take the pulse of the public.

And report on what pulse we find.

It.

Buffett to often the media take their own Paulson and reported -- that's not the American public polls.

As far as -- is concerned -- music and got some results quite similar to the fox poll.

Maybe the most stunning number our -- -- only 22%.

Believe the reporters even try to offer unbiased coverage it's simply.

Doesn't exist in the minds of most voters if that's a possibility in fact -- reporters have picked sides.

51% right now tend to think most reporters try to help Barack Obama win 9%.

Think they're trying to help Mitt Romney win.

This conscious bias than this unconscious bias.

And and -- the unconscious biases most interest thing.

Crystal -- reporter bias is most pronounced on broader social issues such as abortion.

There are very few mainstream reporters who understand -- all sympathetic.

To that the conservative position on social and cultural issues and I think the bias really hits on issues like same sex marriage and abortion rights.

And Chuck Todd conceded to Laura -- that the whole flap over Todd -- comments about quote legitimate right and its effects was a distraction from other more important issues.

The fact is we are under covering the economy was -- You cover the campaign had to confront -- view and you try to cover the issues that are getting under covered you try to do both.

And time magazine's Mark Halperin says the media are very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants.

He also said that coverage of the 2008 campaign was quote.

Extreme bias extreme pro Obama coverage -- our Jim thank you.

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