Posted on 12/15/2019 7:10:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump has broken the press in America.
Or at least he has left it bruised and battered, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center, which crunched reams of data collected from 50 surveys and found that while Democrats continue to have faith in American media, Mr. Trump’s followers are quite done with it all.
The findings were released just days after the press received its latest black eye in the inspector general’s report looking at the FBI’s behavior during its investigation into Mr. Trump. The inspector general thoroughly punctured journalists who insisted that the Christopher Steele dossier had little to do with the FBI’s ability to obtain a secret warrant to spy on one of the candidate’s advisers.
Fueled by those sorts of media missteps, Mr. Trump’s followers are in full revolt against the press.
According to Pew, the stronger the support for the president, the harsher the attitude toward the Fourth Estate.
And the more knowledge about politics, the deeper the divide. A staggering 91% of politically woke Democrats say journalists are acting in the best interests of the public. Only 16% of politically astute Republicans say the same thing, Pew found.
“Republicans who strongly approve of the job Trump is doing are far more pessimistic in their evaluations of the news media than other Republicans. And Democrats who are most disapproving of Trump’s job performance are often more supportive of the news media than Democrats who disapprove less strongly,” the researchers concluded.
The one area of agreement: Neither side thinks the press deals fairly with all perspectives of the news.
“The last four years show that the press is fundamentally broken,” said Curtis Houck, managing editor at NewsBusters.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I’ve been done with the press long before their unprecedented attacks on President Trump. Journalists are bottom feeding scum.
The 1st amendment, back in the day...
“Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”
...simply referred to the spoken word and the printed word.
It was never intended to apply to any elite group of “the press”.
FR in the late-90s spear-headed the drive against the press. We knew back then it was corrupt.
Finished myself.
George Soros and his backers (nations hostile to The United States) must be astonished at how cheap they can buy the whores at the New York Times and CNN and the LA Times and.....
The suck up for the Clinton’s tuned me out way before Trump.
If, by missteps, is meant, baldfaced lies, then yes.
If, by selective coverage, is meant, baldfaced lies, then yes.
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
I’ve been revolted by the Ministry of Propaganda for decades.
They jealously protect themselves as they push the Democrat/Socialist/Globalist agenda.
Gave up on them since my experience with them during Vietnam.
They're artists. The rest follows from that.
There is a reason for this that many of us here, as well as
the demons controlling the Dem party, are well aware of.
The panic is due to the accelerating pace of this awareness.
It’s called the Enemedia because it is PURE PSYCHOLOGICAL
WARFARE. TRUTH coming out is what damages the Enemedia.
As this trend continues, their prospects of victory in the
battle they are waging against the entire populace, wanes.
You are the news now. Win this.
~Easy
They have no idea how pissed we are.
They will find out.
Of course 91% of “woke” dems. think the media are working in the best interest. BECAUSE THEY ARE. FOR THE DEMS. Which also tells me all I need to know about the meaning of “woke”. It’s just so hard to believe that people could be this ignorant, deaf, and blind for SO long and still be functioning enough to participate in a poll.
I, just as many others, enjoy making light hearted snarky remarks when the “other side” makes fools of themselves.
But, in the case of the MSM, I truly loathe those people.
The surveys prove that “informed” Rats are clueless hateful F—tards.
And by the way, the Rats and “the press” are the same thing. They’re all liars and creators/spreaders of fake news.
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