Kristine Marsh:
More bad news for the liberal media.
According to a poll conducted by Politico and Morning Consult, nearly half of American voters distrust the media’s reporting on President Trump and his administration. Not only that, but they believe journalists deliberately fabricate stories about Trump. More surprising, it’s not just Republicans or Trump supporters who believe this.
The staggering results published Wednesday morning in Politico, reveal that while 76 percent of Republicans believe the media makes up stories about Trump, a whopping 44 percent of independent voters, and 1 in 5 Democrats also believe the media lies in their reporting on Trump.
These numbers contradict the media’s narrative that Trump’s battle with the media only influence his base. It seems the media’s constant negative reporting on the president has taken it’s toll on independents and some Democrats as well.
This poll comes on the heels of Trump telling conservative radio host Chris Plante his very same suspicions about the credibility of the media:
“Actually, dishonesty in the media is one of the things that surprised me the most. I thought after I won, the media would become much more stable and much more honest. They’ve gone crazy. CNN is a joke. NBC is a total joke. You watch what they report, it bears no relationship to what I’m doing. But the media is absolutely dishonest — and frankly, I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” he told Plante in an interview Tuesday morning.
Trump also tweeted on Tuesday, “So much Fake News being put in dying magazines and newspapers. Only place worse may be @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN. Fiction writers!”
It seems that almost half of voters agree with the president.
This isn’t the only poll this year that reveals Americans increasing distrust of the media. Back in June, two polls revealed similar results. A Rasmussen poll found “76 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of voters not affiliated with either major political party believed most reporters are biased against the president” while 24 percent of Democrats agreed the media held an anti-Trump bias.
The main-stream news media are like the horns of a steer a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between and the OLD GREY HAG the NEW YORK TIMES(All the Sludge that’s Fit to Print)is by far the all time worst of them all
It’s not like the media tries to hide their dishonesty. This Uranium One story is going to catch the media with their pants badly down around their ankles.