Posted on 05/16/2019 1:26:12 PM PDT by Liberty7732
The events in the above headline are not unrelated.
Once the literally “no news” two-year news cycle of Trump-Russia collusion ended with the thump of the Mueller report finding no collusion and not recommending any obstruction of justice charges, it turns out Americans are OK with President Trump. More than OK.
The Zogby Poll has Trump’s job approval at 51%, 3 points above Obama’s in the same poll at the same point in his first term.
Again, it cannot be said enough, this is after two years of media hyperventilating over something that did not happen.
Maybe more interesting: A majority of Millennials approve of Trump’s performance as President, which has been a huge GOP fear — that Trump would turn off young voters to conservatism for a generation. This may not end that worry, but it sure tamps it down. Further, Trump is winning back Hispanic, Independent, college educated and urban voters.
Rasmussen polls have already placed Trump above Obama at the same time in his term for awhile now.
This is astonishing considering the very friendly, to put it mildly, coverage of President Obama and the nakedly partisan coverage of Trump.
On that point, Trump’s approval ratings are giant leaps ahead of the media’s trust ratings. Maybe not apples to apples, but close. The Columbia Journalism Review, the most prestigious publication for and about the media, reports with surprisingly little verbiage (I think we know why) just how bad the problem is through a commissioned Reuters poll.
Here’s what they found: The media led all institutions for which the public has the lowest confidence. Nobody’s lower. And of all demographic groups, only Democrats expressed a positive confidence in the press. Gosh, I wonder why?
Here are the numbers, which an honest media look at and admit they have a severe bias problem: 42 percent of Democrats believe the media isn’t biased. But only 10 percent of Republicans said the same.
Reagan used to talk about going over the head of the media and talking directly to the American people. Because even then, the media bias was pronounced, albeit nothing like today. Now, it looks like the American people are going over the head of the media directly to reality.
All of this means that the attempt to bring down Trump through what is now demonstrably “fake news” has backfired magnificently. The media as constituted probably cannot recover legitimacy from it’s past 10 years combined of covering for Obama and making it up over Trump. Which is a shame, and shame on them, because the Fourth Estate is an important part of America.
Time for a mass-casualty incident or a racial incident.
I hold the media one level below that of a drunken, drug-addled street dweller.
After all, that street dweller just may have held an honorable honest job if they were ever employed.
And perhaps that street dweller had a journalist as a parent - which explains why he/she/it is in the position they are in now.
It must be his white privilege.
We need to have a weekly CNN trust poll to compare and contrast with a similar poll on Trump.
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I think you need a bit of observation.
CNN happens.
the Fourth Estate is an important part of America.
Let’s get that right:
The Fourth Estate was an important part of America.
Imagine his approval rating if he didn’t have the coup to deal with for the last two years.
These polls I have seen of Biteme beating Trump are crap. The credibility of the Media conducting these push polls is zero.
Which is a shame, and shame on them, because the Fourth Estate is an important part of America.
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The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column. And people know it.
The Fourth Estate ruled the United States for decades. It is how we got where we are today.
The Fourth Estate determined what was news, and what was not. They determined what was important, and what was not.
They mostly determined what politicians were acceptable, and which were not.
They set the narrative on every important subject.
We lived primarily, under a Mediacracy for at least 50 years, possibly more.
Hoping today’s Rasmussen poll is an aberration.
Perhaps some kind of outlier sample because it has POTUS down to 45% today.
The only important poll is where Trump is popular, and that is in the battleground states.
They said either Gary Hart or Walter Mondale would beat Reagan by ten points in March 1984. Not kidding.
We're still here, the same people the MSM used to (disparingly) call, The Tea Party.
(They stopped calling us that because people came to like it, it had a positive no-nonsense ring to it, ha ha)
The Leftist media and the university system should both meet their end.
. . . the battleground states.
I hope you’re right about Trump’s popularity holding firm in the critical states because it has been a tough day.
First, I saw that awful Rasmussen number on Drudge.
Then, a few minutes ago, Bret Baier dropped horrible head-to-head match-ups for PDJT against the RAT field.
Fox has Gropey beating PDJT by 11 points and also losing to Crazy Bernie, etc.
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