A new poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the media is politically biased. Do you know why these people believe this? Because it’s true.
Turn on CNN, MSNBC, the big networks, or even certain hosts on FOX News, and you will hear a never-ending flow of anti-Trump garbage that isn’t even rooted in reality.
Everyone sees it now.
The Daily Caller reports:
POLL: 86% Of Americans Think The Media Is Biased
The vast majority of Americans think that there is political bias in news coverage, a new Gallup/Knight Foundation poll found.
86% of Americans said that the media is biased, with 49% of respondents saying that there is “a great deal” of political bias in news coverage and 37% saying there is “a fair amount” of bias, according to the poll.
People are more concerned with other people’s news sources than they are with their own; when given a choice, 69% of Americans were concerned about bias in the news that other people were viewing, while 29% were concerned about the bias in their own news sources. 56% of respondents agreed that there was political bias in the news source that they relied on the most, the poll found.
The poll found that Americans are divided along party lines when it comes to trusting the media. Republicans distrust the media more than Democrats – 71% of Republicans reported viewing the media “very” or “somewhat” unfavorably, while 22% of Democrats and 52% of independents said the same.
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Turn on CNN and what do you hear? Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad.
Dr. Michael Saag, associate dean of global health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says if President Trump was transparent about the severity of Covid-19 in February, “it would have been a game-changer." https://t.co/jqEiLrAaEd pic.twitter.com/EVgSZcecbb
— CNN (@CNN) September 11, 2020
“It’s completely irresponsible for President Trump to have downplayed the impact of the coronavirus at a moment when every second, every minute, every day, every week counted… President Trump lied and people died,” Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says. https://t.co/qk8bLmUVMF pic.twitter.com/SKmksu7WPe
— CNN (@CNN) September 11, 2020
Turn on MSNBC and what do you hear? Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Trump is bad.
Speaker Pelosi: "Let me use one word to describe everything we've learned in the last 24-48 hours: Contempt. Contempt by the president of the United States for the lives of the American people." pic.twitter.com/KCaFx1vWfx
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 11, 2020
"It's one of the rich ironies here," Philip Rucker says. "This is a president who campaigned for a year and a half and has governed for the last three and a half years in large part on fear, on scare tactics, on creating panic." pic.twitter.com/k0GZcAXnGR
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 10, 2020
A majority of people think the media is biased because it is. Plain and simple.
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