CBS Suppressed Public Support for Arizona Law But Eager to Hype Public Disagreement with Wisconsin's Walker
By: Brent Baker
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:24 AM EST


Last May when a CBS News poll first asked about Arizona’s immigration enforcement law and found majority support for it (52 percent), the CBS Evening News didn’t report the finding. Two months later, when backing jumped five points higher, the newscast gave it a sentence.

And a month after that, when those favoring the Arizona law had risen to 59 percent in August, the evening newscast ignored that number and instead focused on how “Americans oppose building a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero,â€