Posted on 09/05/2017 5:37:53 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
This isn’t a great poll number for the press. Gallup reports that “Just over a third of Americans (37%) in 2017 say news organizations generally get the facts straight, unchanged from the last time Gallup asked this question in 2003.”
While overall perception of the media’s accuracy is stable, major partisan shifts emerged over the past 14 years. Republicans’ trust in the media’s accuracy has fallen considerably, while Democrats’ opinions on the matter have swung in the opposite direction.
When Gallup first asked this question in 1998, over half of both Republicans (52%) and Democrats (53%) believed news organizations generally got the facts straight. Now, almost 20 years later, only 14 percent of Republicans found the media were trustworthy on the facts, while 62 percent of Democrats approve of their fact-handling.
What this demonstrates is that the media’s manipulation of facts pleases Democrats and outrages Republicans. In other words, the media display a liberal bias. The media would argue that Republicans “can’t handle the truth,” and Republicans would point to factually reckless journalists like Brian Williams still working — and in Brian’s case, honored as host of his own show on MSNBC.
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“More broadly, the finding that a solid majority of the country believes major news organizations routinely produce false information is one with potentially significant consequences.”
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Enabling parent corps include: Disney, Comcast, Viacom, and soon AT&T. Don’t subscribe only to have these corps piss in your shoes.
That figure should be lower, shouldn’t it?
I knew the majority who thought so were DemocRats.
And Independents are close to Republicans than Democrats if you look at the full info on Gallup, which this article doesn’t mention. See here:
s/b “closer to”.
Yes it should. Zero is where it should be.
Ask that 37% how many of them read a NEWSPAPER (not just a facebook headline or “trend”) or watch a 30-60minute news broadcast (national) plus 30 minute local EVERY DAY.
They lie. Want to seem smart.
Oh yes, what do I watch? PBS of course. None of those reality shows, huh ha.
Fake news media is preaching to the converted.
Their core base nowadays is the Left. Not enough to win an election in most places.
Most people have stopped watching them. Like I give a damn what they have to say.
Cry me a river!
Lets not forget the education system which destroys our youth.
Who did they poll?
But but but the MSM meticulously fact checks everything using Soros subsidized fact checking web sites
“This isn’t a great poll number for the press.” This is a fantastic number for the press. It means they were able to hoodwink 37% of the public in spite of their incompetence and obvious lying.
Only? 37% is a huge number of terminally stupid people.
True, but from what I can tell, the impact varies depending on the region — we’re fortunate. We’re also proactive about deciphering the PC messaging hoping/praying the kids will keep a mind open to the truth.
The magic 30 some percent that still believes bill clinton DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN even if his DNA is found on the blue dress.
37% are absolute nitwit morons incapable of critical thinking. Pathetic losers.
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