The Mainstream Media’s New Role As The Opposition Party
February 09, 2017
(WASHINGTON) President Donald Trump and his administration have been in a non-stop fight with several media outlets, and recent polling gives the administration reason to continue this effort.
- Two polls out Tuesday, from Emerson College and SurveyUSA, show that registered voters both trust and like Trump more than the media.
- The Emerson College poll found that 49 percent of voters find Trump truthful, while just 39 percent of voters believe the news media is truthful.
- There was a heavy split among party lines when it came to this matter.
- While 77 percent of Democrats believe the Trump administration is untruthful, 89 percent trust Trump’s government.
- At the same time, 91 percent of Republicans believe the news media is untruthful, and 69 percent of Democrats believe the press is honest.
- Registered independent voters consider both the Trump administration and the press to be untruthful.
The Emerson College poll was conducted between Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent.
The SurveyUSA poll asked 1,207 registered voters between Feb. 6 and Feb. 7 about their opinion on American political figures and press outlets.
It found that 26 percent of voters have a very favorable opinion of President Trump, while 38 percent of Americans have a very unfavorable view of him. On the other hand, just 17 percent of voters have a very favorable opinion of CNN, while 21 percent have a very unfavorable view of the cable network. Fourteen percent of voters have a very favorable opinion of The New York Times, and 18 percent of voters have a very unfavorable opinion of the paper. (RELATED: Trump Admin Calls NY Times Story ‘Epitome Of Fake News’)
The Washington Post and MSNBC similarly are only very favorably viewed by less than 15 percent of voters. Another finding that bodes well for Trump is that Fox News is the outlet with the highest favorability in the poll. The SurveyUSA poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.82 percent.
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller. TRUNEWS provides commentary.
Like David vs. Goliath, Rick Wiles is a citizen reporter who decided to take on the Big News Media. Starting with a $7,500 donation in May 1999 to launch the first radio program, Rick’s faith in God and steadfast determination has overseen the growth and development of Trunews into an internationally recognized source of credible news and information in a world where nothing seems to make sense anymore. Rick’s professional career was in media marketing and advertising sales. Throughout his early years, God’s hand silently guided him to be in employed in the latest new media. While in his early 20’s, Rick’s first media job was with a new FM radio station in the days when AM was still king.
In 1980, he blazed a path as a pioneer in local cable television advertising when CNN and ESPN were new start-up channels on cable TV. As a sales manager, he launched one of the first cable advertising interconnects in the nation. He was hired in 1984 by the Christian Broadcasting Network as the first National Cable Marketing Manager for the new CBN Cable Network which later became the Family Channel. In 1995, Paul F. Crouch hired Rick as the Marketing Director for Trinity Broadcasting Network where Rick repositioned the TBN brand inside the cable industry – and played an important role in negotiating the early contracts to launch TBN on DirecTV, DISH, and the former PrimeStar DBS systems. Rick resigned from TBN in September 1998 after receiving a dramatic call from God to fulltime ministry.
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