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I don't need to check the ratings. I asked you how many people you are concerned will be solely influenced by The Today Show, and nothing else. You can't answer that. Because none of us know the answer. Nobody I know watches Matt Lauer once and says "I need to vote for candidate x".
Why did you ask me a question that you just said nobody knows the answer to?
You don't have to convince anyone that the MSM has a lean. So does Fox. So does MSNBC. So does CBS. So do the NY Times and the NY Post and the Washington Examiner. The Today Show isn't a serious news reporting show, so they will report on all of this exactly as they report on everything else - like it's an entertainment story.
Having a "lean" is one thing, but when it comes to reporting the hard news, don't you think it's reasonable to expect at least some measure of balance?
That report may have been on the Today Show, but it wasn't being reported by Lauer or any of the other hosts of the show. That was a NEWS report put together and reported on, by an NBC News correspondent. If you take a look at how Fox reported it on Special Report, you don't see a one-sided story, but one that was balanced and presented the reactions and opinions from both sides of the political isle.
I don't think NBC claims to be unbiased or makes any kind of pronunciation at all about their lean. Fox claims to be unbiased, which IMO makes them even worse.
NBC refutes any notion that they have a political bias and always has... Fox claims their hard news (not opinion shows) are balanced, which compared to ABC, NBC and CBS, damned sure are. Again, you should compare the 2 videos i posted.