Media Blog reader Joe wrote:

If this poll is a damning indictment of the mainstream media, does that really matter as long as the general public laps up what the mainstream media tells them with complete credulity? Isn’t this poll a damning indictment of the American people, and doesn’t it show that the power of the liberal press is as strong as it ever was? Doesn’t it indicate that this country is in serious trouble when the press can behave in such an blatantly one-sided, partisan fashion, and the vast majority of the American people are completely oblivious to this fact? Doesn’t this poll indicate that the “new” media’s actual influence is still miniscule when compared to that of the old media? Doesn’t this poll suggest that Republicans who are expecting electoral repercussions in 2006 for the Democrats’ shameful behavior may be most unpleasantly surprised?

I agree with several of Joe