Gallup Poll: Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of News Media Handling Of Wuhan Coronavirus

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 Gallup Poll: Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of News Media Handling Of Wuhan Coronavirus
March 26, 2020 By Tristan Justice

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.

Gallup 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.

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That’s why no one is buying their BS. And despite their 24/7 attacks criticizing Trump on his handling of the corona virus, the president enjoys skyrocketing approval.

 

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Imagine if during WWII Roosevelt had mentioned the Japanese threat or the press had heard someone in his admin say the three letter word for a person of Japanese descent, and then they, the press, had questioned FDR about racists in his admin.
The members of the press who had gotten upset about FDR's using nasty epithets to characterize Japanese or Germans would have had to worry about not getting physically assaulted by average citizens whose sons were fighting those people.
Nobody was concerned about those things in those days, even Big Media which I would bet was pretty liberal even  then.
The threat was coming from Japan and Germany. If it was FDR himself who casually tossed off epithets towards the Japanese (the J*ps) and Germans (the Huns), nobody would have batted an eye.