American distrust in the media is richly deserved

Americans fault news media for dividing nation: AP-NORC poll

  • The Russia hoax.
  • The refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop.
  • The “51 intelligence agencies” lie.
  • The ongoing cover-up of Joe Biden’s lies and poor mental state.
  • COVID.
  • Apparent slander against Dominion Voting.

“Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults say the news media is increasing political polarization in this country….”

The only mystery is what the other quarter is smoking.

11 thoughts on “American distrust in the media is richly deserved”

  1. Anyone who wants to feast on red herrings should most definitely come to this Blog. The quagmire of FOX and the MAGA movement is so deep, that their adherents will do anything, however silly, to put their opponents on the defensve.

  2. Yeah, lots of people were in the locus of Russian influence in the Trump camp and were convicted…that is undeniable…and something the right likes to ignore. However, nobody ever really tied it directly to orange bozo himself. Seems he was hanging around bunches of criminals, but …. idk, what’s that proverb? CNN and MSNBC gave Adam Schiff all the airtime he wanted to tell about the indictment that was imminently coming but never arrived.

    They sure did blow it/ run cover for the HB laptop. But, it also did have quite a few earmarks of a stunt and electoral manipulation too.

    Lots of bad assumptions and lies about COVID.

    Not in the last 6 years, but can we forget Obama being born in Africa? Or a child pedophile ring being run in the basement of a pizzeria… that has no basement…and no pedophilia?

    1. Did any significant news outlets promote the “Obama was born in Africa” story? Or the pizza thing? I can’t remember.

      1. Fox had the Obama story on all of the evening talking heads… I think even when Bill O-Reilly was one of the chief dickheads. (I could listen to his radio show, but could not stomach the TV).

        Maybe Pizzagate was limited to QAnon. But, they certainly have destroyed people like Seth Rich: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938545344/fox-news-settles-with-seth-richs-parents-for-false-story-claiming-clinton-leaks

        And Ray Epps. I wonder what his settlement is going to be…

  3. QUOTE: Americans fault new media for dividing nation

    Despite not participating in the poll, I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment. The BIG LIE has been a huge divisive factor in this country and Fox News, et. al. were major players in that game. Now that they’ve parted ways with their “divider and chief” their audience is now wondering if Fox has gone “woke”. Amazingly, they’ve been lied to so long that any move towards facts and truth sends them into a “woke” alert . Maybe their theme song should be Fleetwood Mac’s… “Little Lies”?

    QUOTE: The Russia hoax.

    What Russia hoax? Maybe they believe if they say it often it enough it will actually be true??? But alas, even boot licker Marco Rubio admitted publicly… “What the Committee did find however is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”. What was a hoax was how conservatives invented “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and the “Obama Birther Lie”. Oh while we’re at it we might as well throw in the hoax from GOP Senators Graham and McConnell. They told the America people that during a presidential election year SCOTUS nominees shouldn’t be appointed and they would abide by the new rules they instituted…NOT!

    QUOTE: The refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop.

    Yet another misguided, right wing talking point. Even the bastion of all “fake news” (according to Trump, et. al.) has covered this story consistently…this is just one example. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/hunter-biden-federal-investigation-heats-up

    QUOTE: COVID

    Indeed there was LOADS of errors in reporting on this novel virus….inclusive of VP Pence writing an article boldly declaring there would be no COVID second wave. Yet, one thing the media got totally accurate in a live broadcast featuring former president Trump: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”

  4. In other media survey news…

    2017 RASSMUSSEN POLL
    A plurality of Americans think that Fox News deserves the first “Fake News Trophy.” A new poll from the conservative-leaning Rasmussen finds 40 percent of respondents think Fox News should get the Fake News Trophy, which was first suggested by President Trump in a tweet. The second place winner, according to the poll, was CNN, which received 25 percent support. MSNBC followed CNN with 9 percent, and ABC, CBS and NCB each received less than 5 percent support for the Fake News Trophy.

    2019 PEW SURVEY
    Fox News is the fifth most trusted source in America for political and election news, with 43% of all polled voters (compared with 47% of second-place CNN and 34% of ninth-place MSNBC). However, it is also the least trusted with 40% of all polled voters (compared with 32% of second-place CNN and 26% of fourth-place MSNBC).

    2022 YOUGOV POLL
    When rebased, the most trusted people in the news business for Americans are Anderson Cooper (44% who are familiar with Cooper trust him), ABC News’ David Muir (40%), and Fox News’ Bret Baier (39%).

  6. https://apnews.com/article/durham-trump-russia-probe-7e84f94ca9cf7905cbc5eddc108575b3

    Relative to the “alleged” Russia Hoax…it appears that special counsel Durham’s 4 year investigation of the investigators (FBI) has now come to a formal close. It seems to have a number of strong admonishments to the FBI but nothing criminal. Even the two criminal cases they took to trial were loses. Seems it’s fallen short of all the right-wing rhetoric.

    So, for millions being spent, it seems we got one FBI guilty confession, no successful criminal prosecutions, and a report that was filled with recommendations that have already been implemented by the FBI (several years ago). Seems this is another indicator that there wasn’t a “Russia Hoax” being promulgated by the Deep State.

    1. An interesting contrast to Durham’s report…it argues the FBI acted hastily and on “uncorroborated, raw information.” Yet, the DOJ (under the Trump administration) concluded the FBI was justified in opening that investigation and those decisions were free of any political bias.

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