Broad topics we might want to look at

I definitely agree that shifting the question from "How much does the media influence you politically?" to a question regarding a person's perception of bias in types of media. Instead of framing it in way that sort of accuses the a person of being influenced (something most won't admit to) it focuses on specific media sources. I kind of think public perception of the media's influence would be interesting to look at, especially in comparison to the actual level of influence we detect through our other questions. I know there was a recent debate about the possibility of bias in the CBC's reporting, so it is something the public is aware of/becoming more aware of, as the topic was making news recently.

The question that concerns perceptions of how good a job media does, or referring to specific news services is a good start. Perhaps instead of naming all the possible sources of news service it could act as a follow up question to "where do you get your news from?" and in the choices of that first question we could include examples like 1) Print (The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun etc.). But then the problem would be people might be defensive about their news service of choice, believing it to be bias free even if it isn't. I don't know, it's difficult to word the question without sounding accusatory.