7 in 10 voters don’t trust the media to report on politics accurately and fairly
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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On one hand, it should be higher. On the other hand, I'm surprised it is that high at all.
I'm sure it's just indicative of the increasing polarization. The left is convinced their propagandists are softballing them and running interference for the right.
This.
It's not enough that most news outlets are "generally" regressive. That they would even allow for non-regressive views to surface on the New York Times is proof that they're totes beholden to those evil right-wing corporations.
In other news, 3/10 voters are utterly clueless idiots.
A third of the country thinks sex (not gender) is assigned at birth.
They are correct not to do so. The press is a fundamentally broken paradigm.
Yet the MSM still controls the narrative, because so much "independent" media is astroturfed, and most of the stuff that isn't still just sits around commenting on whatever the MSM shits out. Nevermind how the algorithm relentlessly promotes their bullshit, and how the MSM still has influence over the stock market and advertisers.
One of the biggest problems is that while most people don't trust the MSM, the PMC (professional-managerial class) still do. PMCs are about ten percent of the population, the same ten percent that in the Hidden Tribes survey identified as "very progressive" and were the only demo who said they think political correctness hasn't gone too far. And they're the most vehement believers in credentialism, because they're the most favored demo by the system.
30% of burgers are retarded?
I'd say more, because even some retards can be right
The other three in ten probably also don't trust the media to report on politics accurately and fairly, but think it's a good thing.
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I think there is a difference between what they say and what they do, because clearly people believe the media a hell of a lot more than they probably want to admit. It’s just like games media, where everyone claims that nobody listens to games media while simultaneously using the media score on metacritic as an important tool in deciding whether a game is worth their time.
funny enough, I find let's plays to be far more useful in evaluating a game than any review.
...and let's be honest, games journalism was a shitshow all the way back to the nineties...
the other 3 in 10 are democrats