Nearly three-quarters of the country believes that the media is “dividing Americans” along political, racial, and gender lines, a stunning condemnation of the press, according to a new national survey.
What’s more, the Zogby Analytics poll provided to Secrets said that the media bias is sparking hate and misunderstanding.
And while Americans also blame President Trump for dividing voters, the survey analysis said the media is worse. Those surveyed, said Zogby Analytics, “felt the mainstream media spreads hate and misunderstanding, also felt that President Trump is responsible for the spread of hate and misunderstanding, but more voters overall, and in most sub-groups, blame the media slightly more!”
Overall, 72 percent said “the mainstream media has played a major role in dividing Americans along racial, gender and political lines. This has led to a spread of hate and misunderstanding among some people.”
Only two-thirds said the same about Trump.
While 7-in-10 men and women agreed that the media is to blame for dividing the nation, Republicans were nearly unanimous while just 51 percent of Democrats said the press was to blame.
There was a similar division among black and white voters, as the analysis here shows.
The key summary analysis from Zogby:
Based on the results of the recent midterm election in the U.S., in which the Democrats took back control of the House and the Republicans regained a majority in the Senate, suffice it to say, Americans are politically divided. The country is also divided as to who should shoulder the blame: There are some people who feel racial, gender, and political issues are made worse by the coverage of the mainstream media, while there are others who feel the divide we currently suffer from is the result of President Trump’s rhetoric.
In order to determine who voters blame more, we asked likely voters in separate questions, “Do you agree or disagree: The mainstream media/President Trump has played a major role in dividing Americans along racial, gender and political lines. This has led to a spread of hate and misunderstanding among some people.”
It’s no surprise that strong majorities blame both the mainstream media and Trump: Nearly three-quarters agreed (strongly and somewhat agree combined) that the mainstream media plays a major role in the spread of hate, while only 29% disagreed with this notion. This was more than the two-thirds of respondents, who felt the same about President Trump, while one-third disagreed. We will get into the specific details of the president’s role, regarding America’s political divide, in our next release.
Actually the media is promoting freaks / queers / lesbo’s / tranny’s / invaders / towel heads / goat fuckers / ghetto culture / communists – pitted against ‘normal people’.
Normal people should just suck it up, and be nice.
And the other 28% are clearly NOT paying enough attention….or work for the media.
Last nite, I was watching the ABC evening news with greasy haired David Muir, and he was reading a story about how the US Justice Dept. was concerned with an uptick in so called “hate crimes”. The background picture that was shown looked like a white supremacist rally, with the Confederate flag, Nazi symbols, and a banner reading “White Nation”. So I guess white people are the perps of all hate crimes now? ABC put out a nasty piece of propaganda, and probably no one noticed.
Absolutely. While the guys in black with masks, setting fires, breaking windows, pepper spraying pedestrians, chasing down old men who refuse to follow their “orders” and sucker punching anyone they think isn’t a communist are “heroic counter-protestors.”
Trump would have no reason to run his own news feed on Twitter if the press simply stated what happened every day without editorializing or criticizing it. The media is in large part a wing of the Democrat Party just like the old KKK.
The MSM is the biggest problem in America.
The Main Stream Media, including the big social media companies, are finished, caput, dead men walking. The trust is long gone because the MSM is now run by pathological liars. Lying is what they do 24/7.