Majority of Republicans believe media is "enemy of the people"

[kentuck]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/26/half-of-republicans-say-the-news-media-should-be-described-as-the-enemy-of-the-american-people/?utm_term=.b91a48a99096

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Last month, Quinnipiac University’s pollsters asked Americans if they agreed with the sentiment Trump expressed in that tweet. Were certain news outlets — unnamed by Quinnipiac — enemies of the American people? Nearly 4 in 10 said yes — including more than 8 in 10 Republicans.

[wasupaloopa]

1. I find it strange that before the 2016 election the media gave trump wall to wall coverage of his

rallies and kept up the pressure on Hillary's email stories. The repubs liked that. Yet today the media is giving trump the same amount of coverage but the repubs see it as a negative.

The only difference is that today trump's coverage is about what he is actually doing and in 2016 it was about what he said he would do.

[DonCoquixote]

2. The diference maker

Churches. Churches want to be the main power brokers and a source of information,and they are among the GOP like nowhere else in the world,save Iran. The churches have been working very hard to make sure that a person's mind is made up before it hits a newspaper.

[treestar]

3. Then they are the unpatriotic ones

Free speech is a problem for them

[beachbum bob]

4. anything not in agreement is fake.

Been promoted since the loss of the fairness doctrine and has effectively made 35% of Americans ignorant fools and tools

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. But not THEIR media. nt

[jrthin]

6. In many ways the media is the enemy of the people, but not in

the way they believe. The media is the enemy of the people because many in the corporate media fail to tell the truth, fail to hold the powerful accountable, fail to forgo profit over truth, fail to understand that news is not entertainment, and many of the hired guns of the corporate media fail to be courageous. A good example is the NYT's, a few months back had the headline, "Trump Reinvents the Presidency." The NYT's understand the power of words, and with that headline they gave a positive spin to this nightmare of a presidency.

[kentuck]

7. We believe the media should be right 100% of the time...

But they are human and far from infallible. They have a lot of flaws but like Jefferson said, he would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.