Which media company is the most trusted news outlet?
New poll has a surprising answer.
NEW YORK (PNN) - July 17, 2023 - The press, facing a president members disliked and had voted against, essentially created a war on President Donald J. Trump.
Their treatment included openly and falsely suggesting he was lying. It seems just about every question was a "gotcha".
Contrast that with the intensely hard-hitting questions faced by Joe Biden so far, including what was his favorite flavor of ice cream is.
The bias is obvious that Trump labeled the legacy media "fake news".
However bad the problem was then, it is getting worse, according to a majority of Amerikans.
The majority confirmed that media bias is getting worse. Rasmussen Reports confirms that it conducted a poll of 1,005 Likely Voters in recent days, with a margin of sampling error of three percentage points.
It revealed that 25% of voters say "none of them" to answer the question which is the most trusted news organization.
Fox News got the same 25% it has in past polls, while CNN got 13%, MSNBC 12%, and NBC, ABC and CBS 6% each.
A column by Christopher Tremoglie at the Washington Examiner said the results show that Amerikans "are embracing" Trump's opinion about news, and what he called "fake news".
Specifically, the Left-wing bias in reporting the news.
"He was one of the only Republican politicians to repeatedly point out the disproportionate Left-wing bias of mainstream media, and voters adored him because of it," the commentary said.
The survey found 58% of voters think the issue of bias in news media is getting worse.
That, the commentary explained, is "reflective of how far the credibility of news media have dropped in the country."
Only 13% say the situation is getting better.
"It represents a significant problem going forward that will further contribute to the country’s bitter ideological divide and tribalism," the commentary said.
That divide was obvious in the results. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans think bias in news media is getting worse. Only 42% of Democrats said that.
"Interestingly, of the arguably most critical voting demographic, those who weren’t affiliated with either Republicans or Democrats, 65% believed that media bias was worsening," the commentary explained.
Twenty-two percent of Democrats say they believe media bias in the news is getting better. Nine percent of Republicans said the same.
"People have grown tired of agenda-driven news reporting. Ideally, we would live in a country where there wasn’t any media bias. People would be able to get accurate news reports on all news stories, not just those with an agenda-driven purpose, and make political decisions based on what they have read," the commentary explained.