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Poll Shows Public Media Weary

GREENVILLE -- A new Bob Jones University/Clear Channel/Luntz Research poll shows the American public to be more "media weary" than "war weary."

In a survey of 1012 likely television viewers, less than one in five respondents expressed satisfaction with news media reporting. With an approval rating of merely 17%, the media trail President Bush, Congress, the war in Iraq and mothers-in-law in the eyes of Americans.

"I think what we are seeing in these results is clearly the 'Nagging Wife Syndrome' -- you know, in-one-ear-and-out-the-other," said BJU Dean of Journalism Graham Williams. "People are just plain tired of hearing talking heads complain about everything and telling them how to think, what to eat and how to live their lives."

Williams' comments were immediately condemned as sexist, racist and intolerant.

"This is nothing more than right wing Christian bozos getting together with their willing accomplices in talk radio to prop up a failing presidency," said CNN founder Ted Turner. "They should all be rounded up and dumped in the middle of the ocean."

Founded in 1927 by Bob Jones, Sr., an evangelist and younger contemporary of Billy Sunday, BJU is the largest private liberal arts university in South Carolina and has a reputation for being one of the most conservative of religious schools in the United States.

Surveys were conducted face-to-face using random sampling techniques. The margin of error for the survey, conducted August 13-19 , is +/- 3.3 percentage points.



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