can only imagine that they've either sold out, are pedophiles or their families are being threatened
No that's not it. Trump was elected, they purged all conservatives from their friends and their news, and so they've been subjected to 5 years of continuous brainwashing completely divorced from reality.
It's a mind prison of their own making.
And they have no idea that this happened! Absolutely no idea. Stewart like most democrats believes he's the same principled, honest person that he was 5 years ago. They think that NPR has integrity, that NYT is still the paper 'of record' instead of 'of toilet' and never lies.
You can see this visually in the trust in media poll chart where democrats bumped up +20% to 70% trusting mainstream media in 2016 -- can you imagine anybody trusting media these days?! Even the 10% trust by republicans is still waaay too high.
I've seen this personally with relatives. I show them most democrats being two orders of magnitude wrong on covid, polls covering a year span, and ask them how that happened - they literally can't believe it and come up with any excuse. They actually said that only democrats 'misunderstood the question'. Dozens of objective things showing how they've been lied to and nothing works. "Mass formation psychosis" sounds hokey, let's be honest, but it's fucking true. Their brain is not working. Trump broke them.
In the opinion part they're trying to spin the data so it looks like republicans are dumb about some things, but the poll data is as good as any other gallup (not great, but not two order of magnitude off).
Another one from year prior shows the same thing, and worse because this one shows that smart democrats were only marginally closer than the MSNBC drones whereas smart republicans were spot on.
"About two-thirds of liberal Democrats (66%) trust The New York Times, for example. In comparison, just 10% of conservative Republicans trust the Times [for political and election news]"
Very close to the overall ratings that Gallup found, a little low but trust for political stories should be lower than in general because people understand there's going to be some coloring there. Two established polling companies being way off in the same way? Polls are worse now, but the ones way off like Biden +10 are push polls - intentionally bad.
"Republicans have grown increasingly alienated from most of the more established sources, while Democrats’ confidence in them remains stable, and in some cases, has strengthened"
They're telling you exactly what happened. Democrats are still listening and trusting the same sources - they have no idea that those sources are all reporting from the same page or that anything changed due to Trump. If anything they hear "Orange Man Bad" from all of journalism (from their POV) and think journalism is better because it's saying what they want to hear.
No that's not it. Trump was elected, they purged all conservatives from their friends and their news, and so they've been subjected to 5 years of continuous brainwashing completely divorced from reality.
It's a mind prison of their own making.
And they have no idea that this happened! Absolutely no idea. Stewart like most democrats believes he's the same principled, honest person that he was 5 years ago. They think that NPR has integrity, that NYT is still the paper 'of record' instead of 'of toilet' and never lies.
You can see this visually in the trust in media poll chart where democrats bumped up +20% to 70% trusting mainstream media in 2016 -- can you imagine anybody trusting media these days?! Even the 10% trust by republicans is still waaay too high.
I've seen this personally with relatives. I show them most democrats being two orders of magnitude wrong on covid, polls covering a year span, and ask them how that happened - they literally can't believe it and come up with any excuse. They actually said that only democrats 'misunderstood the question'. Dozens of objective things showing how they've been lied to and nothing works. "Mass formation psychosis" sounds hokey, let's be honest, but it's fucking true. Their brain is not working. Trump broke them.
In the opinion part they're trying to spin the data so it looks like republicans are dumb about some things, but the poll data is as good as any other gallup (not great, but not two order of magnitude off).
Another one from year prior shows the same thing, and worse because this one shows that smart democrats were only marginally closer than the MSNBC drones whereas smart republicans were spot on.
I'm not sure how anyone looks themselves in the mirror and says, "Yeah, I trust polls". There's no way 70% of any population trusts the MSM.
Here's a pew research poll giving more detailed breakdown by news source.
"About two-thirds of liberal Democrats (66%) trust The New York Times, for example. In comparison, just 10% of conservative Republicans trust the Times [for political and election news]"
Very close to the overall ratings that Gallup found, a little low but trust for political stories should be lower than in general because people understand there's going to be some coloring there. Two established polling companies being way off in the same way? Polls are worse now, but the ones way off like Biden +10 are push polls - intentionally bad.
"Republicans have grown increasingly alienated from most of the more established sources, while Democrats’ confidence in them remains stable, and in some cases, has strengthened"
They're telling you exactly what happened. Democrats are still listening and trusting the same sources - they have no idea that those sources are all reporting from the same page or that anything changed due to Trump. If anything they hear "Orange Man Bad" from all of journalism (from their POV) and think journalism is better because it's saying what they want to hear.