Asked if the media are objective enough, 73percentt said it was not, to just 20percentt who said it was.
I want to address a broader question: Will the economic interests of the media undermine objective news coverage?
Despite the drooling acclaim with which Nolan's work is regularly greeted on fansites and in sections of the media, any objective analysis would conclude that he has a long, long way to go.
Important within all this is that the so-called objective media (ie, mainstream media, not right or left wing media) reports on gridlock and obstruction as a "both sides are to blame" situation, thus cloaking the real roots of the problem in a veil of false equivalence.
One powerful and unruly factor in the propaganda war is that politics and the media are not objective – far from it.
I fully understand the role of the media as an objective and neutral storyteller but what I do not understand is how spreading hate and hyping up hysteria is beneficial to any communities or serving of its objective neutral role?
"We thought Western media is very objective," said Chao Wu, a 28-year-old working on his doctorate in material science, "and what it turned out is that Western media is even more biased than Chinese media.
You know that what's appearing in state-run media is not objective, but something on the Internet might be".
You know that what's appearing in state-run media is not objective, but something on the Internet might be," says Thomas Crampton, the global managing director for international marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather.
The third type is from the so-called objective media.
This is not to promote or justify the high corruption levels in Africa, but to request for global media to practice objective journalism by exposing all corrupt leaders regardless of where they are in the world.
