Republicans think the news media are being too easy on Barack Obama. In fact, 60 percent of them say so, a figure that’s up from 55 percent four years ago, when Obama ran against Sen. John McCain. That’s the conclusion of a poll conducted Sept. 20-23 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
This finding reflects the e-mail I receive from people who identify themselves as Republicans and conservatives, and even from some independents and Democrats, who say The Post is too easy on Obama.
My e-mail is not a scientific survey — it’s really an index of complaints and unhappiness with The Post — but I think my e-mail trends and surveys that Pew has done in the past year should be food for thought for The Post.
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