President George W. Bush Checks in with a 41% approval rating in the latest Opinion Dynamics Corporation poll for FOX News. The president's number is at is highest mark in months, according to the poll.
The New York Times did not fare as well as Americans overwhelmingly support a program to monitor financial transactions in search of terrorist funding.
Seven of 10 Americans support the program, including majorities of Republicans (83 percent), independents (67 percent) and Democrats (58 percent), according to the survey.
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The Times ran an earlier story about the secret program even though both Democrats and Republicans pleaded with the paper to hold off. By publishing the story, a 60 percent majority thinks the Times did more to help terrorist groups than the public (27 percent).
There was some good news for the media, Americans trust them just a little bit more than the government.
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Fox News reports:
-- Overall, by 40 percent to 25 percent, Americans trust news reporters more to tell the truth than government officials, with 26 percent saying “neither.”
-- More Americans blame government employees for leaking the classified info (51 percent) than the media for reporting it (28 percent).
-- Furthermore, almost all (87 percent) think the employees who leaked should face criminal charges and two-thirds think the news organizations should.
Some call it treason
Even so, Fox reports, only 43 percent are willing to call what the media did treason, and almost as many think the organizations that published the information were operating for the public good (37 percent).
Note: These are just some of the findings of the new national telephone poll of 900 registered voters conducted from June 27 to June 28 by Opinion Dynamics Corporation for FOX News. The poll has a 3-point error margin.
Full story and poll results at Fox news here
--Jim Roberts
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