Their propoganda is working....recent poll shows 48% see Trump as more truthful than media.

[dixiegrrrrl]

The Trump administration is more trusted than the news media among voters, according to a new Emerson College poll.

The administration is considered truthful by 49 percent of registered voters and untruthful by 48 percent.

But the news media is less trusted than the administration, with 53 percent calling it untruthful and just 39 percent finding it honest.
The numbers split along party lines, with nearly 9 in 10 Republicans saying the Trump administration is truthful, compared with more than 3 in 4 Democrats who say the opposite.

The Emerson poll found that 69 percent of Democrats think the news media is truthful while 91 percent of Republicans consider the Fourth Estate untruthful.

Independents, meanwhile, believe both the administration and the news media are untruthful, with 52 percent saying the administration is untruthful and 47 percent saying the same about the media.

The poll echoes Gallup's annual poll on the public's trust in media, which showed before the election that 32 percent of Americans trusted the institution, including just 14 percent of Republicans.

The poll was conducted Feb. 5-6 with a sample of 617 registered voters and a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/318514-trump-admin-seen-as-more-truthful-than-news-media-poll

according to Twitter, He who must not be named has 24.5 millions followers ( some of which could be Dems or people outside of the USA, of course)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Unfortunately, the media did a lot of that to themselves.

They have a lot to atone for and a lot of credibility to try to regain.

[elleng]

2. 'Their propaganda' ALWAYS works.

[spanone]

3. once, we were one of the smarter countries on the planet

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. When I read about the students who went to school even 100 years ago

who knew Latin, and sometimes Greek, and advanced math, I could scream.
People who could afford it in the 1800's not only studied the languages,but wrote books or journals and studied nature in a very serious manner, were highly educated.
Ignoring for the moment that was a huge disparity in educational opportunity, it is still impressive.
And now we have a dolt who is acting like an illiterate, and a congress which has destroyed educational quality and e-quality.

[AngryAmish]

8. The Humanities shot itself in the face two generations ago.

I myself was deprived of a classical education, pure autodidact. I had to buy Xenophon at Borders.

The basis of our society was The Enlightenment and the Peace of Westphalia. Neither is taught today, because of Dead White Males.

I heard that 25% of Millennials believe in democracy. If they never learned about it, then why would they care?

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. GOP doesnt even need half of us to be this dumb, they dont need anything anymore.

They have the power to dismantle everything.

E V E R Y T H I N G

[octoberlib]

6. 6 days ago Public Policy Polling released this

Another aspect of Trump's unpopularity is that he's losing all of his fights. In the last week he's gone on the attack on Twitter against John McCain, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and CNN and in each case we find voters siding with Trump's adversary:

-By a 51/37 spread voters say John McCain has more credibility than Trump.
-By a 52/41 spread voters say the Washington Post has more credibility than Trump.

-By a 51/42 spread voters say the New York Times has more credibility than Trump.

-By a 50/42 spread voters say CNN has more credibility than Trump.

Overall 47% of voters approve of the job Trump's doing to 49% who disapprove. And 45% have a favorable opinion of him to 52% with a negative one. But when you dig down on the actual policies he's pursued and actions he's taken, the picture gets even worse for him.


http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/PPP_Release_National_2217.pdf

I learned from my psychology professor regarding polls that the way a question is worded oftentimes determines the answer that is given.

I wouldn't read too much into one poll. Small sample size , almost 4% margin of error.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. "the way a question is worded oftentimes determines the answer that is given. "

Exactly.
We get polling phone calls every once in awhile, and they all remind me of that irritating game we played as kids..
"would you die by being tied to railroad tracks or eaten by a shark?"

The beginning of adulthood is when you say "Neither...go away".