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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 27, 2020, 03:43:59 pm
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As Trump’s Poll Numbers Rise, Media Begin Censoring Press Conferences
Media continue to make their coverage choices based on whether they believe it will harm or help Trump.
By Mollie Hemingway
March 26, 2020
When polls showed that President Donald Trump was receiving unusually high marks for his handling of the Coronavirus pandemic, the first stage of grief the media went through was denial:
The political media have been working extremely hard to craft a narrative that the spread of the coronavirus was essentially the fault of the man they had blamed for all other ills in recent years. How could the people not accept that narrative, particularly considering that most everyone in the media was pushing it?
Things got worse when additional polls showed Trump receiving high ratings at the same time that the media received poor ratings. A brand new Gallup study — “Coronavirus Response: Hospitals Rated Best, News Media Worst†— was particularly bad news. When Americans were asked about nine different institutions and political leaders, they gave majority approval to all but the media. President Trump has a 22-point net approval rating while the media’s net approval rating was negative 11 points. The RealClearPolitics approval average for Trump was its highest during his entire presidency.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/as-trumps-poll-numbers-rise-media-begin-censoring-press-conferences/
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I haven't watched any conferences in the past couple days. I found the press' questions aggravating and then reading or hearing their skewed version. There have been a couple of times in the past when I watched one of the pressers that the networks had some "technical" difficulties ... normally when either Trump or Pence were speaking.
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If NBC and CNN follow through with their threat, Fox will owe them a yuge "Thank you!" for the ratings boost! :silly: