A new poll from Gallup on Americans' trust in the news media is out, and the timing couldn't be more perfect.
CNN's Jake Tapper, after being among those in the media helping push the Democrat talking points about Biden being just fine and waving off evidence to the contrary as simply being because of a life long problem with stuttering, has co-authored this book:
JAKE TAPPER: “As viewers know I’ve been covering concerns about Biden’s age and health for years… we spent several months talking to people… you will not believe what was really going on.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 27, 2025
I can’t believe this is real and he said this with a straight face.
Jake Tapper and CNN… pic.twitter.com/2smcV3EoiX
Two years ago: "Biden's fine, stop mocking his stutter and those videos showing him feeble are cheap fakes!"
Today: "Buy my book about the attempts to cover up Biden's true feeble condition."
And with that, there's a new "trust in media" poll out, and though the approval is dismal, the level of distrust is not high enough -- it should be nearly 100 percent:
GALLUP: Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades. pic.twitter.com/EBwH7h3Nd2
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) February 27, 2025
From Gallup:
When Gallup began tracking Americans’ views of the news media in the early 1970s, attitudes were overwhelmingly positive, but public confidence in the Fourth Estate has collapsed over the past three decades. President Donald Trump’s press secretary recently cited these data as a reason behind the administration’s decision to reserve a seat at White House press briefings for nontraditional “new media,” such as “podcasts, blogs, social media and other independent outlets.”
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About two-thirds of Americans in the 1970s trusted the “mass media -- such as newspapers, TV and radio” either “a great deal” or “a fair amount” to “[report] the news fully, accurately and fairly.” By the next measurement in 1997, confidence had fallen to 53%, and it has gradually trended downward since 2003. Americans are now divided into rough thirds, with 31% trusting the media a great deal or a fair amount, 33% saying they do “not [trust it] very much,” and 36%, up from 6% in 1972, saying they have no trust at all in it.
And the beauty of it all is that they just don't understand why.
The public trUsts Media LESS THAN Congress and the federal government....
— Sean Nienow (@SNienow) February 27, 2025
That's not easy to do.https://t.co/Hny6bapYMl pic.twitter.com/LVM3EQXefi
All the while "journalists" like Jake Tapper trying to figure this out are doing the meme:
Yep, they worked hard for it:
Earned. https://t.co/Jamo4apfJA
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 27, 2025
And then some.
Well-deserved. Good job, everyone. https://t.co/dyJN8jLcli
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) February 27, 2025
Take a bow, legacy media!
All the while the press expects everybody to get the "First Amendment is under assault" shudders just because the Trump White House is mixing things up when it comes to who gets access. They should try not being such a loathsome pack of lying narrative pushers and see if that helps turn things around (as if that would ever happen).
