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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:42 PM Jan 2018

Study: 42 percent of Republicans believe accurate - but negative - stories qualify as 'fake news'

Source: Washington Post

Study: 42 percent of Republicans believe accurate — but negative — stories qualify as ‘fake news’

By Erik Wemple January 16 at 11:45 AM

All those media-trust studies have a tendency toward the rote. Yes, we already knew that the public had little trust in the country’s journalistic organs. Yes, we knew that finding credible sources could be a harrowing pursuit for the public. Yes, we knew that an increasing portion of the U.S. public felt that the news was biased.

Yet this nugget from a new Gallup-Knight Foundation survey just about knocked the Erik Wemple Blog out of a decade-long media-research torpor:

Four in 10 (or 42 percent of) Republicans consider accurate news stories that cast a politician or political group in a negative light to always be “fake news.” (The corresponding figure for Democrats is 17 percent.)

Perhaps President Trump’s associates should place that data point in his daily briefing packet so that he can brag about it. There’s precedent for that, after all: Back in September 2016, a Gallup poll found cratering public trust in the media. Asked about that situation, Trump despaired not. “I think I had a lot to do with that poll … because I’ve exposed the media. If you look at the New York Times, and The Washington Post, and if you look at others: the level of dishonesty is enormous. It’s so dishonest. I can do something that’s wonderful and they make it sound terrible,” Trump said in an interview.

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Study: 42 percent of Republicans believe accurate - but negative - stories qualify as 'fake news' (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2018 OP

This is why I dont talk to them, at all anymore, about anything. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1

So when he sharts himself in front of an audience of thousands ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #2

I am completely unsurprised that Reps don't know the difference BoneyardDem Jan 2018 #3

Republicans are idiots Gothmog Jan 2018 #4

Of course. In SHITLER language, "fair" means favorable-to-him. Anything else is "fake." UTUSN Jan 2018 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. This is why I dont talk to them, at all anymore, about anything.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:47 PM

Jan 2018

They either wont believe it or in most cases they will support the president when he refers to other countries as shitholes.

We are way past all this. We are at a point most of us dont want to admit.