One of TFG's most damaging legacies is somehow getting worse
A recent poll from the Pew Research Center shows that Republican trust in national news organizations halved during the last five years. Even in our era of political extremes and unexpected turns, it’s an eye-popping stat that underscores one of former President Donald Trump’s most damaging legacies: sowing mistrust in the idea of shared reality.
The key takeaway from the analysis is that while Democratic trust in national organizations has dipped by 5 percentage points since 2016, Republican trust has nosedived. Here’s Pew’s breakdown of some of the major findings about how much the gulf between the two groups has widened:
Nearly eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (78 percent) say they have “a lot” or “some” trust in the information that comes from national news organizations — 43 percentage points higher than Republicans and Republican leaners (35 percent) — according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted June 14-27, 2021. This partisan gap is the largest of any time that this question has been asked since 2016. And it grows even wider — to 53 points — between liberal Democrats (83%) and conservative Republicans (30 percent). The 35 percent of Republicans who have at least some trust in national news organizations in 2021 is half that of in 2016 (70 percent) — and has dropped 14 points since late 2019 (49 percent). By comparison, Democrats have remained far more consistent in the past five years, ranging somewhere between 78 percent and 86 percent.
A similar, if less pronounced, dynamic can be found in Democratic and Republican trust in local news organizations and social media. While Democrats’ and Democratic-leaning independents’ trust in local and social media fell by just 1 to 2 percentage points, Republicans’ and Republican leaners’ trust dropped by over 10 points in both.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-one-of-trumps-most-damaging-legacies-is-somehow-getting-worse/ar-AAOb2h7
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Their complicit behavior and refusal to call Chump out enabled him to get elected. The mistrust that we Americans have in our news media is richly deserved. Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley - they had the balls to tell the truth - but they're gone now.
What's left are hacks - corporate people who only care about selling ad time. The news shows will report whatever story grabs the eyeballs and sells the TV time to advertising customers. Do I sound a little disgusted? Yeah I am, because it's this thinking that put Chump in the White House. Look deep enough, maybe even Dubya too.
