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Fake News Backfiring on anti-Trumpers

by EasTexSteve

Mar 6, 2017

The mainstream media's open hostility to President Trump may be starting to backfire, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll.

The poll found that 55&37; of the public says they've grown "weary from the media's persistently negative coverage of President Trump." A roughly equal share (54&37;) also believe that the news media "has assumed the role of the opposition party, constantly opposing the president and his policies at every turn."

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Lulu On 3/07/17, Bob R/CA wrote: > On 3/06/17, EasTexSteve wrote: >> The mainstream media's open hostility to President Trump >> may be starting to backfire, according to the latest >> IBD/TIPP poll. >> >> The poll found that 55&37; of the public says they've grown >> "weary from the media's persistently n...See MoreOn 3/07/17, Bob R/CA wrote: > On 3/06/17, EasTexSteve wrote: >> The mainstream media's open hostility to President Trump >> may be starting to backfire, according to the latest >> IBD/TIPP poll. >> >> The poll found that 55&37; of the public says they've grown >> "weary from the media's persistently negative coverage of >> President Trump." A roughly equal share (54&37;) also > believe >> that the news media "has assumed the role of the > opposition >> party, constantly opposing the president and his policies >> at every turn." >> >> http://www.investors.com/politics/public-turned-off-by-medias- >> relentlessly-negative-coverage-of-trump-ibdtipp-poll/ > > > I consider it a service to remind people, every time > someone cites Investor's Business Daily, I remind them > exactly what they are referencing. Digital fishwrap. > > <i>In July 2009, an editorial in Investor's Business Daily > claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a > chance in the U.K., where the [British] National Health > Service (NHS) would save the life of this brilliant man, > because of his physical handicaps, is essentially > worthless." Hawking has always lived in the U.K. and > receives his medical care from the NHS, and IBD later > removed the editorial's reference to Hawking in its online > version, and appended an "Editor's Note," which said, "This > version corrects the original editorial which implied that > physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of > Cambridge, did not live in the UK."[11][12] Hawking himself > responded, "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the > NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality > treatment without which I would not have survived."[13] > </i>

To begin with, it's clearly a push poll, a poll that asks questions in a way designed to influence the answer, e.g., "Do you prefer an ice cream like chocolate that stains clothing, or do you prefer non- staining vanilla?" Instead of using neutral language it uses the language of the Trump campaign ("Has the news media assumed the roll of the opposition party in their coverage of President Trump, constantly opposing the president and his policies at every turn?"). I would have hung up on a poller who asked me questions in that way. A truly neutral poll would have used neutral language, e.g.,"Do you think coverage of Pres. Trump by the media has been too negative, a bit negative, just right, a bit positive, too positive?" IBD doesn't give us the full poll or full methodology (for instance, how many polled self-identify as Dem. vs. Rep.) so who knows how the other questions were crafted or the polling pool skewed.

ETS also didn't supply us with the poll's other results, that Trump's approval ratings tanked in their latest poll, with his Presidential Leadership rating dropping a precipitous 9.3&37; between January and March.

Mar 7, 2017

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