The Washington Examiner reports results from a State of the First Amendment poll done at the behest of
USA Today.
It shows that only 24 percent of American adults agree with the statement that "overall, the news media tries to report the news without bias," while 70 percent disagree. When the question was asked last year, 41 percent agreed, a 17-point difference.
The 24% who are liberal (and/or brain dead) agree with what is reported and confuse their beliefs with objective fact - easy to do. Other findings from the survey:
Only 19 percent of Americans say the First Amendment goes "too far" in the rights that it guarantees. Last year, 38 percent said it went too far, meaning support for the First Amendment has grown.
38 percent agree that business owners should be required to provide services to same-sex couples, a 14-point drop from 2013, when the question was first asked.
35 percent say the government "should be allowed to deny issuing license plates to a group who intends to display a Confederate flag on the plates," while 56 percent oppose the idea.
While the article doesn't pursue first causes, it seems to
COTTonLINE recent Supreme Court decisions favoring liberals have pushed public opinion in the opposite direction.
