What Americans care about vs. the Media
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 5:38pm
This chart comes from this site.
Only a third of Americans had any confidence in the media a year ago.
Is it any wonder why more people trust Trump than the news media?
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Nice that the MSM has parted ways with populace
The divorce may be sooner than later.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Screw the MerdeSMerde!!
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
The MSM is more irrelevant
than ever before. It's experiencing open ridicule.
Who's the worst current Baghdad Bob these days?
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
I watched Rachel when nobody else did, in my social circle.
I bragged, begged them to just give her a try, and they got hooked, and they do not read anything else, or listen to anybody else, but Rachel.
I stopped watching her about 2 years ago, maybe caught her chicken shit fake debate with Bernie and some of the other primary candidates, then cut her off.
These are some of my closest pals who are now calling me out for not accepting the fact that Russia installed puppet Trump, and they were all Stein voters!
Very fucked up situation.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Right about the time
they fired Ed was when I gave up. MSLSD was becoming more like Fox Lite by the day, and it had become unwatchable.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
MSWTF
My stock in MSWTF started its downward plummet when they cancelled Countdown with Keith Olbermann. My stock in Olbermann himself started its downhill slide when he reneged on his previously stated truths and backed Her Heinous in 2016.
*diablo" *bomb(
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
@Wink
Yup, as I recall, they fired all of the Progs except Rachel, who must have been the only one willing to lie like a doormat in promoting propaganda in order to keep her job and nice salary. I'd initially wondered how she'd managed to stay on, but that became obvious... unless this is some body-snatcher thing, of course, in which case, she has my pity.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I noticed Maddow went off the rails September 2013
When she parroted without question the bullshit coming out of the White House about the sarin gas attack in Syria and was beating furiously the drums of war.
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Yep, she's a War Party shill
through and through.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Nice find. n/t
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
As Ron Placone points out
the 6% of people interested in Russia,Russia,Russia are most likely hard core Hillbots and elites.
I can't help but wonder how anti-Russia these
people would be had Hillary become president while have back-room deals with Russia.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
LOL, terrorism, 11 percent.
Right. Who would believe that. That shows it just a propaganda poll.
0% Americans care about war, don't even ask.
Nothing about wages, poverty, hunger, homeless... or rotten executive payment schemes. I guess the algorithms are working. Good luck with Medical Insurance (it's not Healthcare, call it what it is).
Polls are propaganda I don't bother with anymore. Consultants and pollsters are all full of shit if you ask me, they'll say and do anything for money. It's how almost everyone is now, scratching and clawing for whatever they can get. It is hard to get used to, I still can't believe how mentally fucked up people appear to be in my area, it is sad. I mean shop owners and grocery clerks and everybody. Looks like California economy is in recession already, and people are confused 'cause it's not on the facebook news telling them how to think about it. Idiocracy hurts.
Make America Think Again
peace
I agree with you about health insurance. When I finally
realized how the ACA was going I started calling it health insurance reform, because that's all it was.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
There is some good news in the polls
The poll reported that people are mostly concerned about health care and the climate. The MSM can report all the fantasies they want about Russia based on their contorted reality, but the people know better. The Russia bashing will pass as there is "no there" there and viewers have a very short attention span for non-stories. The Russian thing is reported endlessly because it has a high titillation factor, oh my god the Soviet Union is back, the head of the KGB is in control, and they successful installed their agent (Agent Pee-Pee) as our president. Really, the most important issue is Climate Emergency and we are starting to see some traction on that.
Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.
Mass media has been the primary mechanism
by which US public opinion is supervised, and to a significant degree controlled. The process is particularly effective when it addresses matters relating to foreign affairs, regarding which Americans generally have no first-hand experience, and therefore are heavily reliant on msm narratives.
These "stories" in "the news" about what is happening in the world at large have been fairly easy to concoct and/or to falsify. They are able to sway public opinion about the actual nature of events, because people generally have no practical way to verify whether what they are being told is true, or not.
The natural tendency is to believe whatever information is presented in an authoritative and credible manner, and distributed to tens of millions of people at once. More often than not however, there is a covert agenda underlying msm's ostensibly factual, and seemingly universal tales. They are deliberately presented in a way that gives them the appearance of being objective and impartial, when in fact they are often heavily biased, rigorously edited, and highly manipulative. To what degree they might be centrally coordinated, is a matter of conjecture.
native
Interesting that "corruption in politics" isn't on the list
As always, framing is everything. Most of my top issues don't appear on the list at all. I'm guessing the questions were never asked.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Ys, it would be informative to know the exact wording
of the questions asked (presentation largely affects outcome) and ALL the questions that were asked. Those pesky things like free college, $15 minimum, fair taxation, etc. may have been queried (though I doubt it). If they were queried, why they not reported?