[frank ballenger]

Anyone who believes in the leftist biased news media propagandists is beneath my contempt.

[fhayek]

It is funny. The LAST thing anyone should due in the event of a national crisis, is access the media.

If I was a member of the media, I would think about that for a good while.

[Conserv]

The American media is pure scum.

[upchuck]

•Vice President Mike Pence: 61 percent vs. 32 percent
•President Donald Trump: 60 percent vs. 38 percent

Interesting...

[SanchoP]

If they would have revised the question to “national news media” it well may have been down around zero.

[traderrob6]

Exactly as I would have surmised.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

•The news media: 44 percent vs. 55 percent

44 percent? Idiots.

[From The Deer Stand]

The media is a joke. A bad one at that. We all know it.

[TangledUpInBlue]

The media lies for political purposes. The media lies for ratings. Even my liberal friend and relatives don’t watch things like CNN and MSNBC. I don’t know who does.

[OttawaFreeper]

A little bit unrelated, but earlier in the week, I happened by Frontline on my local PBS station and it’s topic was the NRA. And in the few minutes I watched this drivel, all it did was talk about that organization in a way that you could easily tell it was to simply make the audience at home angry. When for example it discussed the bloody rampage that took place at Columbine High School, my brain’s little fact checker (the perps bought their Tech 9 handgun from the son of a local gun control activist, the perps had originally planned their rampage at a later date but bumped it up earlier to the day the Colorado legislature was to debate and likely pass concealed handgun legislation because they feared someone with a legally permitted concealed gun could stop them, etc) basically stopped after a while knowing that stuff like that really was not going to matter to the average person who’d tune into that and take it seriously.

And it seems that the media this week had the same sort of purpose: simply make people angry with Trump and ignore that this disease came from a Third World country with a brutal dictatorship that many wealthy liberal business interests have treated as their goldmine all of these years.

[Steve_Seattle]

The reason for these poll numbers is that - apart from some Democratic members of Congress - the media is the only institution that seems to be hoping for the worst, nitpicking and second-guessing everything, actually opposing limited expressions of hope and progress, pretending to be experts, and not doing anything to help out in the crisis, but rather doing everything to carp at Trump and politicize everything.

[Steve_Seattle]

The disparity of the numbers between the CDC and Trump/Pence (80% approval versus 60% approval) reflects media influence, and a confusion of how these things are supposed to work.

The CDC is the main federal bureaucracy established to prepare for these epidemics. It consists of career professionals who obviously have exponentially more medical knowledge than any president, and it is THEIR responsibility to be ready for these situations.

The president cannot be expected to be more prepared than agencies like the CDC, or to deploy assets that aren't available. He is trying to do catch-up work for agencies that weren't prepared. And who has been touting the expertise of the federal bureaucracies against Trump the past three years? The press.

[ldish]

BS on state gov numbers...in our state overwhelmed by politics first! Certainly no higher rating than this shows for TRUMP!