With just 32% saying "They do trust the political news they are getting," the establishment media polls well below the President.
Although the establishment media have long been perceived as biased by conservatives, hence the decades-long existence of conservative media, the feeling now extends well past the 35% of 2016 voters who identified themselves as conservatives in exit polling.
The same phenomenon is apparently happening with the establishment media's relentlessly negative coverage of President Trump.
As the audience fragments more, the establishment media attract a shrinking segment and grow ever more dependent on it.
Few past politicians could have survived, let alone be thriving - in the sense that he won election and has rebounded significantly from polling lows in office - under such an establishment media onslaught.
Well beyond just his recent rebound in public opinion, the establishment media helped create him in the first place.
Like the boy who cried wolf too often, fewer and fewer are likely to believe the establishment media, even should they have a real wolf to report.
https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/media-who-cried-wolf/
Although the establishment media have long been perceived as biased by conservatives, hence the decades-long existence of conservative media, the feeling now extends well past the 35% of 2016 voters who identified themselves as conservatives in exit polling.
The same phenomenon is apparently happening with the establishment media's relentlessly negative coverage of President Trump.
As the audience fragments more, the establishment media attract a shrinking segment and grow ever more dependent on it.
Few past politicians could have survived, let alone be thriving - in the sense that he won election and has rebounded significantly from polling lows in office - under such an establishment media onslaught.
Well beyond just his recent rebound in public opinion, the establishment media helped create him in the first place.
Like the boy who cried wolf too often, fewer and fewer are likely to believe the establishment media, even should they have a real wolf to report.
https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/media-who-cried-wolf/
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