I wish when polls report that 39 or 40% of Americans approve of Trump they could split out what percentage approves of what he’s actually doing and what percentage approves of what Fox News and the rest of the right wing media behemoth says he’s doing.
Americans are pretty dumb. Signed, An American
Exactly. A lot of these people support Trump as an idea and have no clue what he is actually doing because they live in a silo.
Very good point.
Reporting on Trump approval always sort of minimizes the “believes the lies” factor.
I think legacy news media is really reluctant to acknowledge they’ve been lapped by propaganda.
Business first, sensationalism second, truth last.
Exactly. And so mainstream media greatly help in keeping our societal negative hallucination going. That's when U DON"T see something that IS there. Most don't see the large effect of disinfo on elections, so they DK we need to spread truth further than the lies. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...
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Why isn't a different member of Congress designated every day to hold a press conference on this crap? Like the rebutal to the State of the Union message-every day give a lesson on the rule of law and how Trump is exploiting his office?
They don’t even call out Fox, their competitors, for their insane lies. It’s like some kind of weird unwritten code. I vaguely recall when Obama was critical of Fox News and they all came to Fox’s defense. (ps- remember when obama was critical of Fox and it was a big controversy?)
Just like voters believe they are all future billionaires, our media dreams of being state propaganda and therefore protects it.
Every poll should break things down into Fox viewers and otherwise.
That’s exactly it. They should first ask what they think Trump is doing.
I know quite a few trump supporters. I have not been friends with them for years now. They are deplorable people. They are going to be ok with everything he does unless it causes severe damage to their own lives.