What is accurate if it is done right (that's logically perplexing)? Extrapolating statistics? Come on, 30% of 1,000 people is nothing in a population of 83 million people. That doesn't give an accurate consensus either way.
And my reasoning behind pointing out CNN's and Die Zeit's obvious ideological partisanship was for this THREAD only...it involved a CNN article. As far as FOXNews, MSNBC, NYTimes being all the same, unless you mean, all the same in the fact that they "influence mainstream opinion via their mass media presence", yes, that is true - them being the same, politically/ideologically, well, I believe "that" is demonstrable.
The NY Times has lost their credibility in journalistic circles (Jayson Blair sealed their fate, as well as Howell Raines, who was recently replaced - a tad late, you think?). As has the BBC. People want objective news, not blind partisanship - for either side.