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The Trump administration is more trusted than the news media among voters, according to a new Emerson College poll.

The administration is considered truthful by 49 percent of registered voters and untruthful by 48 percent.

But the news media is less trusted than the administration, with 53 percent calling it untruthful and just 39 percent finding it honest.

The numbers split along party lines, with nearly 9 in 10 Republicans saying the Trump administration is truthful, compared with more than 3 in 4 Democrats who say the opposite.

The Emerson poll found that 69 percent of Democrats think the news media is truthful while 91 percent of Republicans consider the Fourth Estate untruthful.

Independents, meanwhile, believe both the administration and the news media are untruthful, with 52 percent saying the administration is untruthful and 47 percent saying the same about the media.

The poll echoes Gallup's annual poll on the public's trust in media, which showed before the election that 32 percent of Americans trusted the institution, including just 14 percent of Republicans.

The poll was conducted Feb. 5-6 with a sample of 617 registered voters and a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.

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Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/318514-trump-admin-seen-as-more-truthful-than-news-media-poll

Edit: Good post from The Albatross on this topic, read it here; http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=229973833#post229973833

 

[Bedameister]

Scary. This will not end well

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Both sides are garbage but news media in general have been awful for many years already and getting worse. No winners here

 

[Randolph Freelander]

9 in 10 Republicans are also brain-dead morons.

 

[Volimar]

Luckily polls are fake or I'd find this depressing as fuck.

 

[John Kowalski]

Just shoot me in the head and kill me already.

America is becoming such an embarrassment.

 

[Cyan]

nearly 9 in 10 Republicans saying the Trump administration is truthful

Jesus Christ the country is doomed.

 

[Shao Kahn on the Lawn]

Jesus Christ the country is doomed.

Honestly...what the fuck do you even do with that? If people are literally seeing shit that isn't there in numbers as large as this, how the Hell do you deal with it?

 

[Poppy]

i wonder what it is like, never thinking for yourself

 

[Gutek]

Republicanism is a cult. Also, this country is done.

 

[Damaniel]

I can't live in a country where a plurality of the population supports the Muslim ban and where the well-established traditional media is considered less trustworthy than the propaganda of a Putin puppet government...

Canada, got any room up there?

 

[NullPointer]

I'm just going to consider this fake news

 

[Numb]

Jesus Christ the country is doomed.

American politics is a terrifying sight to behold

 

[orientalNoodle]

Does this ship have any life boat? I want to get off.

 

[Eidan]

Well the "news media" includes Fox News and Breitbart.

 

[Armaros]

Honestly...what the fuck do you even do with that? If people are literally seeing shit that isn't there in numbers as large as this, how the Hell do you deal with it?

At various points, people in the Trump admin have admitted to saying outright bullshit falsehoods, and still seen as trustworthy.

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

Just shoot me in the head and kill me already.

America is becoming such an embarrassment.

.

 

[pirateluigi]

Jesus Christ the country is doomed.

How do you reason with people that refuse to acknowledge objective facts? How do you convince people that see everything that disagrees with them as fake news?

 

[dopplr]

Those are astonishing numbers to be honest. However, this is our future in a world with so many distractions and ability to close yourself off to negative opinions while at the same time giving you the opportunity to meet like-minded individuals with real ease.

 

[Freshmaker]

Both sides are garbage but news media in general have been awful for many years already and getting worse. No winners here

Uh... No.

 

[Fracas]

This just in: Americans are dumb as fuck

 

[UnemployedVillain]

And I'm suppose to extend an olive branch and try to reason with these idiots? When they don't accept facts, science, or anything not regurgitated by the sentient orange and his gang of crooked friends?

 

[LookAtMeGo]

This isnt funny but I'm still laughing.

 

[BitStyle]

Republicanism is a cult. Also, this country is done.

Exactly.

This is depressing

 

[faisal233]

Both sides are garbage but news media in general have been awful for many years already and getting worse. No winners here

...

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

The general media asked for this garbage when they went to the "both sides" formula. Guess what idiots? You've now created "both sides" to facts. Everything is fungible now.

 

[RedHill]

"A sample of 617 registered voters" lol okay

 

[Krayz]

617 registered voters...that's a pretty small pool...

 

[Erigu]

The administration is considered truthful by 49 percent of registered voters and untruthful by 48 percent.

But the news media is less trusted than the administration, with 53 percent calling it untruthful and just 39 percent finding it honest.

Isn't the latter far less monolithic than the former? I mean, would I say I trust "news media" in general? Shit like Fox News included?

 

[Zaph]

If the methodology of that poll is solid, America is in a dire situation that won't be course-corrected in the midterms or 2020.

 

[gcubed]

Uh... No.

What do you consider "news media", because it can encompass a lot of garbage.

I have no faith in cable news

 

[HazySaiyan]

We're doomed.

 

[Armaros]

And I'm suppose to extend an olive branch and try to reason with these idiots? When they don't accept facts, science, or anything not regurgitated by the sentient orange and his gang of crooked friends?

Republicans actually believe in alternate-facts, and probably rationalize it as, they make up stuff for the Greater Good, 'getting rid of the all of those colored people'

 

[Ryzaki009]

The general media asked for this garbage when they went to the "both sides" formula. Guess what idiots? You've now created "both sides" to facts. Everything is fungible now.

Yep this is pretty much congrats you played yourselves.

But those ratings tho!

 

[jb1234]

God, that's depressing. It's starting to feel more and more like I live on a completely different planet than Republicans.

 

[Seik]

I can't live in a country where a plurality of the population supports the Muslim ban and where the well-established traditional media is considered less trustworthy than the propaganda of a Putin puppet government...

Canada, got any room up there?

Come on here my man!

Though I hope you enjoy cold temperatures during winter.

 

[Gutek]

617 registered voters...that's a pretty small pool...

"A sample of 617 registered voters" lol okay

Hai guyz how do statistics work, lol?

 

[Beartruck]

49% find him truthful but his approval rating is less than that?

 

[MattKeil]

And I'm suppose to extend an olive branch and try to reason with these idiots? When they don't accept facts, science, or anything not regurgitated by the sentient orange and his gang of crooked friends?

Nope. Try to motivate the 8 million registered Democrats who stayed home on November 8th and motivate non-voters to wake up and join the fight against idiots who believe anything a guy with an R next to his name tells them.

You don't need to win over anyone who voted for Trump. You just need to bring in people who didn't vote before. Something tells me that might not be a particularly tall order after this administration is done.

49% find him truthful but his approval rating is less than that?

Some people can't handle the truth!

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

Well what's the sample size? Location of the college? Etc etc? I wouldn't consider just 1 college. Plus college setting is different from other settings.

Edit: mention above.

 

[lastplayed]

This is how religions start.

"God doesn't make my life suck! It's all part of his master plan!"

 

[Armaros]

Yep this is pretty much congrats you played yourselves.

But those ratings tho!

More like funneling even more ratings to Fox News only.

 

[univariate]

617 registered voters...that's a pretty small pool...

Spoken like someone who doesn't know anything about statistics.

 

[benicillin]

The national Emerson College poll was conducted February 5-6 under the Supervision of Professor Spencer Kimball. The sample consisted of only registered voters, n=617, with a margin of error (MOE) of +/- 3.9 percentage points. The national data was weighted by 2016 election results, gender, party affiliation, race, age and region. It is important to remember that subsets based on gender, age, party breakdown and school carry with them higher margins of error, as the sample size is reduced. Data was collected using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system of landlines only.

I mean Gallup told us last year that trust in media was at an all time low, but this is not the poll I would hold up as being definitive proof.

 

[SlimySnake]

with nearly 9 in 10 Republicans saying the

lol republicans. never change. i cant even be mad at these people.

 

[gcubed]

Well what's the sample size? Location of the college? Etc etc? I wouldn't consider just 1 college. Plus college setting is different from other settings.

The college did the poll, not just in the college

 

[Nerazar]

617 registered voters...that's a pretty small pool...

Well, if you extrapolate that, Trump still won the election and people considered him to be "more truthful" than anyone else.

I don't see much reason to doubt the results here.

 

[oti]

So:
- people believe a fascist administration more than the media
- the new education minister is about to ruin education for the next generation

Yep, you're doomed.

 

[nintendoman58]

The poll was conducted Feb. 5-6 with a sample of 617 registered voters and a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.

So this is only the thoughts of 617 people?

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

to be fair, trump said he was going to fuck shit up, and that's exactly what he's doing.