Rasmussen: Voters See Journalists as a 'Political Activist, Not as a Source of Information'

On Sunday's edition of her weekly syndicated show Full Measure, host Sharyl Attkisson discussed the results of a poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen that reflects very negatively on media credibility. During an on-screen interview with Attkisson, the pollster highlighted the most shocking result of the poll: "78 percent of voters say that...what reporters do with political news is promote their agenda. They think they use incidents as props for their agenda rather than seeking to accurately record what happened" while "only 14 percent think that a journalist is actually reporting what happened." Rasmussen continued: "if a reporter found out something that would hurt their favorite candidate, only 36 percent of voters think that they would report that." Rasmussen summed up the results of the poll by declaring that voters see journalists as a "political activist, not as a source of information."