How Biased Is the Media, Really?

Gallup released its annual report on “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media” This past week , Gallup found that for the third straight year more American adults have “no trust at all” in the media than trust it a “great deal/fair amount” In 1976 , the percentage of Americans in the great deal’ category topped seventy per cent . Today , that number sits at thirty-one per cent.

Sulzberger: It's hard to believe a press corps mostly made up of one type of person who votes one way would not be influenced by both their prior beliefs and their gaps in knowledge.

He says the New York Times has not endorsed a Republican for President since Eisenhower in 1956 , nor do they have a columnist or editorial writer who openly supports Trump .

Sulzberg: The American press is not some finely tuned machine but a chaotic institution in decline.

The question is whether this dynamic actually shows up in the day-to-day coverage of the 2024 election.

It's possible to believe that the press made grave errors in 2016 that most likely helped Trump win the election while also understanding that reporters should still honestly cover the Harris campaign.

But partisans who hate the media always find some grievance with the way their preferred candidate is covered.