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  • Emerson College Poll: more people trust Trump than the Media.

    http://media.wix.com/ugd/3bebb2_1a13...65f001f026.pdf

    Source: Emerson College

    BOSTON, MA – The first poll of Emerson College’s Spring 2017 semester shows the nation is split on Donald Trump’s performance as President so far with 48% of registered voters approve of the job that Trump is doing, versus 47% that disapprove. Republicans approve of Trump 89%/5%, while Democrats disapprove of the President by a margin of 81% to 17%. Trump’s failure to pass the 50% threshold for approval can be accredited to his standing among
    independents, who disapprove of him 52%/42%.

    A key finding of the poll shows that voters find the Trump administration to be more truthful than the news media. The Trump administration is considered truthful by 49% of voters, to 48% of voters who consider it untruthful. Meanwhile, the news media is considered untruthful by a 53%-majority of voters, to only 39% who find them truthful (a 14-point gap). Numerous members of the Trump administration – including Trump himself – have been criticized frequently for making false statements. The partisan split on this topic is clear – 89% of Republicans find the Trump administration truthful, versus 77% of Democrats who find the administration untruthful. Conversely, 69% of Democrats find the news media truthful, while a whopping 91% of Republicans consider them untruthful. Independents consider both untruthful – the Trump administration by a margin of 42%/52% and the news media by a margin of 45%/47%.

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    Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
    1 Corinthians 16:13

    "...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
    -Ben Witherington III

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    I am of the opinion that trust in the Media is only going to decline.

    I read two articles on Cracked. One was talking about the times that News Stations resorted to special effects in order to get their story.
    The second was about a piece of technology being developed by Adobe which is essentially Photoshop for voice. Basically it can get a sample of your voice (as little as 20 seconds IIRC) and from there the user can say anything and it will come out in your voice. Added to that technology which will make it so you can have an actor saying the words and the head movements etc. and software will tie it up with the video the person you're imitating.

    You literally could have Barack Obama talking about how when he was growing up in Kenya he went on bombing runs with his family. Yes I know completely false statements (I don't think he grew up in Kenya or was born there), but you will be able to see him on video making these statements in his voice.
    Or you could have DOnald Trump talking about how he wants to dismantle all border control, and nationalise all businesses and banks in America. Again completely false statements, but you will be able to see him on video making these statements in his voice.
    Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
    1 Corinthians 16:13

    "...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
    -Ben Witherington III

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Raphael View Post
      http://media.wix.com/ugd/3bebb2_1a13...65f001f026.pdf

      Source: Emerson College

      BOSTON, MA – The first poll of Emerson College’s Spring 2017 semester shows the nation is split on Donald Trump’s performance as President so far with 48% of registered voters approve of the job that Trump is doing, versus 47% that disapprove. Republicans approve of Trump 89%/5%, while Democrats disapprove of the President by a margin of 81% to 17%. Trump’s failure to pass the 50% threshold for approval can be accredited to his standing among
      independents, who disapprove of him 52%/42%.

      A key finding of the poll shows that voters find the Trump administration to be more truthful than the news media. The Trump administration is considered truthful by 49% of voters, to 48% of voters who consider it untruthful. Meanwhile, the news media is considered untruthful by a 53%-majority of voters, to only 39% who find them truthful (a 14-point gap). Numerous members of the Trump administration – including Trump himself – have been criticized frequently for making false statements. The partisan split on this topic is clear – 89% of Republicans find the Trump administration truthful, versus 77% of Democrats who find the administration untruthful. Conversely, 69% of Democrats find the news media truthful, while a whopping 91% of Republicans consider them untruthful. Independents consider both untruthful – the Trump administration by a margin of 42%/52% and the news media by a margin of 45%/47%.

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      Not surprising that 91% of republicans find the media, that is the MSM, to be untruthful, being that that is what the conservative talking heads like Limbaugh, Hannity, Breitbart, Alex jones etc etc etc and now Trump have been pushing for decades now. Now Trump and republicans, in so far as their base is concerned, can just do whatever they want without fear of media oversight because they have you all believing that its the media that is lying, not them. The media is essential to democracy, just ask Putin who has turned Russian media into nothing more than a propaganda machine.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by JimLamebrain View Post
        Not surprising that 91% of republicans find the media, that is the MSM, to be untruthful, being that that is what the conservative talking heads like Limbaugh, Hannity, Breitbart, Alex jones etc etc etc and now Trump have been pushing for decades now. Now Trump and republicans, in so far as their base is concerned, can just do whatever they want without fear of media oversight because they have you all believing that its the media that is lying, not them. The media is essential to democracy, just ask Putin who has turned Russian media into nothing more than a propaganda machine.
        Jimmy once again proves that the easiest way to impersonate a liberal is to simply say the dumbest thing you can think of.

        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God


        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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        • #5
          By any sane normal measure Trump has lied pretty much daily for the past year or so. Politifact has pretty much almost never encountered someone who lies as much as Trump, and accuse them of a 'liberal bias' if you like, but they rate plenty of Republicans as an order of magnitude more truthful than Trump, he's off the scale. And he's come out with some amazing whoppers... "the media doesn't report on terrorism", "1000s of Muslims in NY were cheering when the towers came down", "we don't have any chess grandmasters in the US", "crime is at a 47 year high", "Obama founded ISIS", "Ted Cruz's father was with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination" etc. In a party of people who lie like absolute champions, Donald Trump stands head and shoulders above the rest.

          The media themselves are not great, in fact 6 months ago I would have said US media was atrocious and was almost nothing but propaganda for the corporate elites. They seemed to feel they always had to say "Republicans say X, Dems say Y, who can rightly say what's true?" rather than calling the Republicans out for their lies, because it served their rich owners' financial interests for them to allow the Republicans to be taken seriously by Americans in order to make sure their taxes weren't raised. Whereas now, it is has at last reached the point where even the most elite corporatists, who would love for the Republicans to be taken seriously so they can screw over the American people, seem to have hit breaking point. Now when what comes out of Kellyanne Conway's mouth contradicts what Sean Spicer said the day before, even the slowest of the TV news people are all over it and asking "why are you lying to us?" I don't know if it's because the corporate elites have decided they don't like Trump despite his promises to lower their taxes, or whether it's because the shills they employ as journalists actually do have limits to the amount of lies they tolerate and have actually reached those limits... but either way it's enjoyable to finally see US media entities doing their job and calling out the lies.
          Last edited by Starlight; 02-15-2017, 06:22 PM.
          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
            Jimmy once again proves that the easiest way to impersonate a liberal is to simply say the dumbest thing you can think of.
            You know there's a correlation in the US population between being a liberal and being intelligent, right? Studies over the past 80 years have repeatedly documented it. And in case that escaped your notice, you may have noticed that the atheist posters on this forum are on the whole a lot more educated than the religious posters are.
            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
              You know there's a correlation in the US population between being a liberal and being intelligent, right? Studies over the past 80 years have repeatedly documented it. And in case that escaped your notice, you may have noticed that the atheist posters on this forum are on the whole a lot more educated than the religious posters are.
              For people who are supposed to be so smart and educated, y'all say some really dumb things.
              Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
              But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
              Than a fool in the eyes of God


              From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                For people who are supposed to be so smart and educated, y'all say some really dumb things.
                There's this thing called Dunning-Kruger which you might have heard of that means that a not-smart not-educated person won't be able to understand the things the smart educated people are saying and that the not-smart not-educated person won't realize how dumb what they themselves are saying actually is. Have you considered how it might apply to you?
                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                • #9
                  I find this sort of thing very concerning. I wonder what the news media can do to win back the trust of the American people. But I also wonder what they are considering as news media, because a lot of Republicans have their own news sources that they seem to trust.
                  Find my speling strange? I'm trying this out: Simplified Speling. Feel free to join me.

                  "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."-Jeremy Bentham

                  "We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question."-Orson Scott Card

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                  • #10
                    What is meant by "the media"? Did the pollsters specify?
                    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                      What is meant by "the media"? Did the pollsters specify?
                      These were the two relevant questions asked (the pdf linked in the OP has the full set of questions + analysis):

                      13. Do you believe the Trump administration has been generally truthful or generally untruthful?
                      Press 1 for Truthful
                      Press 2 for Untruthful
                      Press 3 if you are Unsure

                      14. Do you believe the news media has been generally truthful or generally untruthful?
                      Press 1 for Truthful
                      Press 2 for Untruthful
                      Press 3 if you are Unsure
                      Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
                      1 Corinthians 16:13

                      "...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
                      -Ben Witherington III

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                        There's this thing called Dunning-Kruger which you might have heard of that means that a not-smart not-educated person won't be able to understand the things the smart educated people are saying and that the not-smart not-educated person won't realize how dumb what they themselves are saying actually is. Have you considered how it might apply to you?
                        And this comes from the same guy that:

                        Says he studied Christianity for years, but shows ignorance of basic doctrines.
                        Says his views on being able to murder children are commonplace in New Zealand, but keeps being contradicted by those who say otherwise.
                        Continues to post fake news stories and when they turn out to be false, runs away and post another fake news story without acknowledging that the previous story was false.

                        Sorry, but the evidence says that you're the one with dunning syndrome. The above evidence speaks for itself.
                        "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                        GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Raphael View Post
                          These were the two relevant questions asked (the pdf linked in the OP has the full set of questions + analysis):

                          13. Do you believe the Trump administration has been generally truthful or generally untruthful?
                          Press 1 for Truthful
                          Press 2 for Untruthful
                          Press 3 if you are Unsure

                          14. Do you believe the news media has been generally truthful or generally untruthful?
                          Press 1 for Truthful
                          Press 2 for Untruthful
                          Press 3 if you are Unsure
                          And it should be as clear as day to any objective observer that Trump is not truthful and yet 89% of Reublicans believe him to be truthful. That is a very telling statistic with respect to the republican mindset. Facts just don't seem to register!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                            There's this thing called Dunning-Kruger which you might have heard of that means that a not-smart not-educated person won't be able to understand the things the smart educated people are saying and that the not-smart not-educated person won't realize how dumb what they themselves are saying actually is. Have you considered how it might apply to you?
                            No, but it definitely applies to you. Especially given the fact that you don't even understand what Dunning-Kruger really is.

                            I'll just leave it that. I'm not even going to bother explaining it to you because it's more fun that way.
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God


                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • #15
                              I'm a little surprised the media still has that much trust.
                              I don't believe any of it anymore.
                              Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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