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  • Sep, 2010

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    Rating the Media

    Q. Overall, how would you rate the media (newspapers, TV, radio, internet) for their reporting of Federal politics  – thinking about their coverage both before and after the election?

    Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens


    Total good 32% 35% 37% 20%
    Total poor 23% 23% 18% 37%
    Very good 7% 8% 7% 2%
    Good 25% 27% 30% 18%
    Average 40% 37% 43% 37%
    Poor 9% 7% 9% 13%
    Very poor 14% 16% 9% 24%
    Don’t know 6% 5% 2% 6%

    32% think media reporting of Federal politics has been good, 23% poor and 40% average. Greens voters are most likely to think it has been poor (37%).

    Q. Overall, do you think media reporting – both before and after the election – favoured the Labor Party, favoured the Liberal and National parties or gave fair coverage of all parties?

    Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens


    Favoured the Labor Party 23% 12% 39% 9%
    Favoured the Liberal and National parties 17% 27% 8% 29%
    Gave fair coverage of all parties 44% 49% 42% 43%
    Don’t know 17% 11% 12% 18%

    23% think media reporting favoured the Labor Party and 17% think it favoured the Liberal and National parties – while 44% think it gave fair coverage to all parties. 39% of Coalition voters thought the media favoured the Labor Party – compared to 27% of Labor voters thinking it favoured the Coalition. 

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