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 ...
One solution: Thanks to the internet, folks could start their own local on-line news sites. All that’s needed is somewhere to get some tech and legal advice.
Yep - the “Fake but true” crap against Bush did it for me...
Somehow an unfair and biased media is a “new” thing. LOL.
“The suck up for the Clinton’s tuned me out way before Trump.”
That seems to be the turning point for me as well.
Never buy any mainstream publication. The New York Post and the Wall Street Journal are exceptions, but even they sometimes kiss the a$$ of the left.
The “press” was broken long BEFORE Trump.We,the people,are tired of being told how to think...
exactly.
Thank you... I yell this at anyone who will listen. Metropoloid goons like Chris Wallace and Brett Baier think they are "the press" because they know everyone in DC and work for giant media companies that grew up in urbanized northeastern areas over the last century.
The giant media companies only commandeered and centralized (and manipulated) "the press" because they had the money and equipment. Now they're pretty useless, unless they're providing original content, which nearly none do. Heck they don't even break news anymore, just talk about what we've already read on the internet.
See tagline.
Your post is good news and bad news as my grandson stated recently. Good news people are waking and bad news people are waking. People are unpredictable. May God lead and may Jesus walk with the awake
“The Press” is Comcast, Disney, and now ATT
L8R.
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