{"id":39137,"date":"2018-09-12T17:53:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T00:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39137"},"modified":"2018-09-12T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T00:58:13","slug":"despite-his-hysterical-smear-campaign-americans-still-trust-the-media-more-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39137","title":{"rendered":"Despite His Hysterical Smear Campaign, Americans Still Trust the Media More than Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than two years now, Donald Trump has been attacking what he calls the “fake news”<\/em> at every opportunity. He does it in interviews, on Twitter, and at his tedious cult rallies where he seems to be on auto-pilot, regurgitating the same old cliches that his disciples devour like nicotine candy. Even after being told that his reckless labeling of the press as “the enemy of the people”<\/em> was a rhetorical remnant of Joseph Stalin, Trump continues to use the line without the least bit of shame or decency.<\/p>\n

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However, after his years-long campaign of denigrating the press, as well as the Constitution’s First Amendment, Trump has gotten nowhere in terms of swaying the favor of the public. A new poll by Quinnipiac<\/a><\/strong> asked “Who do you trust more to tell you the truth about important issues: President Trump or the news media?”<\/em> A majority of fifty-four percent chose the media. Only thirty percent chose Trump. That’s a twenty-four point margin of difference. Broken down demographically, the only group that trusts Trump more, outside of the margin of error, is Republicans. But Independents, Men, Women, and every age and ethnic group trusts the media more.<\/p>\n

The poll also asked “Which comes closer to your point of view: the news media is the enemy of the people, or the news media is an important part of democracy?”<\/em> And by an even bigger majority the media came out far ahead, with sixty-nine percent saying that the media is an important part of democracy. And once again, every demographic breakdown agreed, except for Republicans. Forty-seven percent of the Grand Ole Party actually agrees with Trump (and Stalin) that the media is the enemy of the people. This is an affirmation of the Trump rally-goers who were immortalized wearing a t-shirt that reads “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Annnnd they\u2019re finally being completely honest: They\u2019re not Americans anymore. pic.twitter.com\/ab0zpScFQK<\/a><\/p>\n

— Charles Gaba ( ??, deal with it) (@charles_gaba) August 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n