[ April 19, 2024 ]
The media is worse than the disease.
Gallup Poll: Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of News Media Handling Of Wuhan Coronavirus
Of nine leaders and institutions rated by Americans in a new poll on their response to the novel Wuhan Coronavirus, the media fared the worst, and it’s not even close.
According to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday, the media was the only institution that scored a negative approval rating among the public with only 44 percent of Americans approving of the way the media has covered the virus. Fifty-five percent disapprove making for a -11 percent rating.
Story continues below advertisementGallup also gathered approval ratings for U.S. hospitals, schools and daycares, state governments, employers, government health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, and Congress.
The next institution to score the lowest among the people was Congress, which garnered a 59 percent approval rating to 37 percent who reported disapproving. Trump landed a 60 percent approval rating to 38 percent saying otherwise.
The poll was conducted March 13-22 and surveyed a random sample of 1,020 adults through telephone interviews aged 18 and older in each state and the District of Columbia with a 4 percent margin of error.
Trump’s 22 percent net-positive rating marks a net-33 percent difference in public views towards the president and the media in present moment of crisis, and for good reason.
Last week, as the states began to issue “shelter-in-place” orders putting one in three Americans on lockdown to prevent the further spread of the Wuhan virus, the media parroted Chinese Communist Party propaganda and remained fixated on whether the president referencing where the virus came from was racist.
“Why do you keep calling it the Chinese virus?” one reporter asked the president during a White House press briefing on the pandemic.
“Because it comes from China,” Trump said plainly. “It’s not racist at all… It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want it to be accurate.”
The same kind of exchange was during the press briefings throughout the week, as woke media elites took the bait from the Chinese government charging the term “Wuhan virus” as offensive earlier this month.
“We condemn the despicable practice of U.S. politicians eagerly stigmatizing China and Wuhan by association with the novel [Wuhan] coronavirus, disrespecting science and WHO,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang.
The media has since decried use of the same language they employed themselves at the start of the outbreak.
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12 Comments
4 years ago
That is why more are tuning into Trump’s briefings to understand what is really going on.
4 years ago
Nothing has changed with the MSM, the Democrats and others of the Leftist contagion that are bent on Trump’s end. They will continue criticizing his efforts, hoping voters are as daft as they. Is Trump batting 1000? No, but every world leader is up against a virulent pandemic and many are still grasping for straws. The world, as a whole, was ill-prepared after the SARS virus outbreak and the world s paying deeply for it.
4 years ago
Nolte: Poll Shows Public Approves of Everyone’s Handling of Coronavirus … Except the Media
BY JOHN NOLTE 26 Mar 2020
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A Gallup poll released Wednesday shows the American people approve — and by wide margins — of the way every institution is responding to the coronavirus … except for the news media, whose numbers are not only awful, but in far, far, far last place.
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Here’s the breakdown of approve/disapprove:
* U.S. Hospitals: 88 percent vs. 10 percent.
* Your child’s school or daycare: 83 percent vs. 9 percent
* Your state government: 82 percent vs. 17 percent
* Your employer: 82 percent vs. 14 percent
* Government health agencies such as the CDC or NIH: 80 percent vs. 17 percent
* Vice President Mike Pence: 61 percent vs. 32 percent
* President Donald Trump: 60 percent vs. 38 percent
* Congress: 59 percent vs. 37 percent
And way, way, way, way down at the bottom sits…
The news media: 44 percent vs. 55 percent
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Every single institution responding to the Chinese virus, even congress, is above water by more than 20 points. Trump is above water by 22 points. And the media are underwater by nine.
Every single institution responding to the Chinese virus is way above 50 percent in public approval, except for the news media, which sit at a paltry 44 percent.
The media are not only in last place, the media rank behind Congress by 15 — 15! — points.
This poll was taken between March 13 and 22 of 536 employed adults and 262 parents of children under the age of 18.
Much more here:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/03/26/nolte-poll-shows-public-approves-everyones-handling-coronavirus-except-media/
4 years ago
Look at the facial expressions on that twit questioning President Trump. The idiot has utter contempt for him. What a moron and piece of garbage.
4 years ago
Reply to
Jameson
The media is a lost cause the most EMETIC group of people on earth with some exceptions should be fined for all their lies and put out of business .
4 years ago
We have to find out what universities these radical progressive so called journalist are graduating from & who the professors are that programed them
I guarantee you that we’d be looking at around only a dozen Prof’s who are essentially dictating the narrative that is being broadcasted every day & night
4 years ago
Reply to
Bear Jew
…And only a handful of media corporations providing at least 70% of our news.
4 years ago
any crap pile the democrats had went in
4 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
Ridiculous. And this happens again and again. Congress is clearly broken.
4 years ago
The FBI’s house of hookers is all the MSM is.
