Majority View News Media as Pro-Hillary and Dishonest
While Hillary Clinton’s campaign
blames Donald Trump’s win partially on the media for supposedly being
“pro-Trump,” a recent survey found that a majority of people believed the
opposite about the news media.
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7 in 10 (69%) voters do not believe
the news media are honest and truthful.
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8 in 10 (78%) of voters believe the
news coverage of the presidential campaign was biased, with nearly a 3-to-1
majority believing the media were for Clinton (59%) vs. for Trump (21%).
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Even 1/3 (32%) of Clinton voters
believe the media were “pro-Clinton.”
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8% of Trump voters said they would
have voted for Clinton if they had believed what the media were saying about
Trump.
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97% of voters said they did not let
the media’s bias influence their vote.
So, not only do most people view the
news media as dishonest and untrustworthy – like Hillary Clinton – they view
the news media as almost totally ineffective in giving viewers the “correct”
opinion. Ninety-seven percent said that they didn’t let the media sway their
opinion on their vote preferences.
It’s readily apparent that these
days, the media operate not to hold the government accountable, but to sway
public opinion, and it’s not working anymore. The media viewed Donald
Trump as a clown candidate – a side-show that was worth covering for ratings
purposes – but they also helped to fabricate scandals that they thought would
be fun to cover and would surely keep him down. I actually think they were
trying to do Hillary a great service by not taking her real scandals seriously,
and instead focusing on branding Trump as “racist,” “sexist,” “homophobic,”
“xenophobic,” and “Islamophobic.” The media assumed that Hillary was a shoo-in.
So, they covered Trump’s foot in his mouth, strictly for ad revenue and their
own entertainment.
They did all that at their own
detriment. It backfired. People are smarter than the media and Democrats think.
They see right through the media’s agenda. WikiLeaks helped to reinforce
viewers’ distrust of media by exposing real scandals in the Hillary campaign.
When the media issued a collective shrug in response, viewers saw that as
covering for Hillary.
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