There’s an old saying that says, “What goes around,
comes around.” And then, there’s yet another,
just as old, saying that might also be applicable when it comes to the behavior
of those in our state-controlled media.
It says, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the
people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” I will leave it to the reader to determine for
themselves which might be the most fitting regarding the recent discovery made by
a new Rasmussen survey about how the American people feel about their ‘news’ media. You see, what was found out as a result of
this survey is that 61 percent of Likely Voters in the United States now say they
don’t trust the political news they’re getting.
In addition to the 61 percent, it was 59 percent who
are of the opinion that coverage of the 2016 presidential race will be slanted,
and it was 46 percent who said that ABC’s George ‘Stephy’ Stephanopoulos should
be banned from any presidential campaign coverage because of donations he made
to the Clinton Foundation. The survey
asked likely voters five questions ranging from whether they trusted the ‘news’
they were getting, to their opinions on whether reporters would try to help or
hurt certain candidates. It might be
worth noting that the 61 percent of likely voters who do not trust the
political ‘news’ they receive is a 16-point increase from the last survey taken
just last October, when 45 percent of likely voters said the same thing.
It was also according to Rasmussen that 21 percent
of likely voters say they still have confidence in the political coverage they
get while 17 percent say they aren’t sure. The 21 percent who said they have confidence
is down 12 points from the last time the survey was taken, when 33 percent said
they were confident. In addition to not
trusting the political ‘news’, 48 percent of likely voters believe that media
bias is a problem in politics. According
to Rasmussen, “Forty-eight percent of voters think media bias is a bigger
problem in politics today than big campaign contributions, but nearly as many see
campaign cash as the larger problem. Majorities
of voters across most demographic groups do not trust the political news they
are getting.”
And not only do many voters think that media bias is
a problem, but 37 percent also believe that the average reporter is more
liberal than they are. According to
Rasmussen, “Thirty-seven percent of Americans believe the average media reporter
is more liberal than they are. Eighteen
percent consider that reporter more conservative.” The report goes on to state, “When it comes
to the 2016 presidential campaign, only 23% believe most reporters will try to
offer unbiased coverage.” It adds, “Fifty-nine
percent think that coverage will be slanted instead, with 36% who say most
reporters will try to help Hillary Clinton during the campaign and 23% who say
they will try to hurt her bid for the White House instead. Seventeen percent are
not sure.”
The survey states, “Forty-two percent of voters who
don’t trust the political news they
are getting think most reporters will try
to help Clinton; just 14% believe the media's coverage of the 2016 race will be
unbiased.” And it then says, “Among
those who do trust political news coverage, 38% say most reporters will try to
stay neutral, but nearly as many think they will try to help the Democratic
frontrunner.” While 46 percent said Stephanopoulos,
who was a top adviser to ‘BJ’ Clinton, should be banned from covering any news
on the 2016 presidential race, 34 percent said “they are less likely to believe
the reporting on ABC News because Stephanopoulos failed to disclose the
donations [he made] to the Clinton Foundation.”
But you know, if you bother to tune into any of the nightly
network ‘news’ programs or nearly any of the cable ‘news’ programs, or choose
to pickup a copy of nearly any issue of print ‘news’, it would seem that the
purveyors of what passes as ‘news’ today are bothered very little by the fact
that a majority of Americans simply no longer trust much of what it is that they
have say. And yet, far too many
Americans simply can’t be bothered to do what’s necessary to get, and to keep,
themselves informed despite the level of journalistic malpractice that has been
painfully obvious since 2007, especially as it related to Barry. It has become obvious we can no longer trust
the state-controlled media to provide us with usable, and actionable,
information.
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