Poynter - Americans Think Media Makes Up Stories On Trump...

A massive survey 2,100 adult Americans carried out by the Poynter Institute finds trust in the media is not what it should be.

While the finding that 49% of Americans believe that the media reports the news, "fully, accurately and fairly," the more shocking revelation is that so many American believe the news media actually invent stories:

Disturbingly, the Poynter survey found nearly half of Americans — 44 percent — believe the press invents negative stories about the president, including 74 percent of Republicans.

Poynter, a journalism think tank, acknowledges that having just shy of half of Americans thinking the media makes up stories about President Donald Trump is problematic but then points the finger of blame squarely at the audience rather than at the media:

The finding should be a fire alarm for newsrooms; a widespread, fundamental misunderstanding among the public of what we do points to an urgent need to be more transparent about how and why we report news. Remedies to begin restoring audience trust include annotating stories and linking original documents and images to show how we know what we know, and publishing reports and videos taking the audience step-by-step through ethical standards, methods, sourcing and fact-checking.

Poynter also makes sure to take a swipe at Donald Trump for the fall in the trust in news media:

Distrust of the news media didn’t start with Donald Trump, but he has amplified and stoked those doubts like no American president before him. Trump is also not the first politician to discredit any negative reporting on him, but his effort to undermine a shared understanding of facts conveyed in fair, vetted reporting takes a page from the playbooks of authoritarians in China, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela.

It seems Poynter never heard of the Obama administration attacking media outlets it disagreed with or using the Espionage Act to target journalists and their sources.
(Via: Truth Revolt)

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Blog Author's Comments: Who are these 49% simpletons who buy what the MSM is selling? That is what is somewhat shocking. 'Americans Think Media Makes Up Stories on Trump' and they are absolutely correct. This poll is another waste of time survey of a small fraction of the population. Having said that, as one can read, the commentary is the real effort here, not the results. So let's dismiss the boring, politically driven commentary from Poynter.

The fact is, when Donald Trump brought up fake news, it resonated with so many of us because we already knew about it. We were glad someone finally exposed the media. Fake news, faked indignation and deceitful accusations were over-abundant during the eight years the Democrats were in the Executive Branch with Obama, and media propagandists at CNN, MSNBC and many others, who were circulating disinformation and providing cover for the poor leadership and deceitful nature of Barack Hussein Obama, and his bedfellows Susan Rice, Eric Holder, John Kerry and the notoriously corrupt Hillary Clinton.

What allows the 'fake news' networks to remain in business is the authentically dumbed down Americans. There is a huge number of people who believe what they see and hear from their leftist mainstream news shows. And many of these people who cannot think and reason for themselves, go to their voting booths armed with what they believe is actually true information. According to this poll, it seems that more folks are paying attention, but not nearly enough. If President Trump could walk on water, the media spin would be 'Trump Afraid to Swim'. My own study showed the media is comprised of many anti-American imbeciles not worth listening to.

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Trump To CNN: 'You Are Fake News'

Ann Coulter - Liberals & Guns

What Liberals Don't Know About Guns, Chapter 217
Fresh off of blaming Jared Loughner's killing spree in the Tucson mall on Sarah Palin, liberals are now blaming it on high-capacity magazines. They might as well imprison everyone named "Jared" to prevent a crime like this from ever happening again.

During the presidential campaign, Obama said: "I don't know of any self-respecting hunter that needs 19 rounds of anything. You don't shoot 19 rounds at a deer, and if you do, you shouldn't be hunting." It would have been more accurate for him to end that sentence after the word "hunter."

It's so adorable when people who wouldn't know a high-capacity magazine from Vanity Fair start telling gun owners what they should want and need.

In fact, high-capacity mags put a predator like Loughner at a disadvantage because they are so long, unwieldy and difficult to conceal. This may be why the Tucson shooting appears to be the first spree killing involving a high-capacity magazine. It would have been easier for Loughner to bring two guns.

On the other hand, for a homeowner who is a poor marksman, a large-capacity clip could be a lifesaver.

But after every multiple murder, liberals come up with some crackpot idea to "do something" that invariably involves infringing on some aspect of our Second Amendment rights.

The ACLU won't let us put nuts in mental hospitals and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik wouldn't lock up Loughner even after he had broken the law several times.

In an open society that includes Sheriff Dumbnik and the ACLU, deranged individuals may explode into murder and mayhem now and then. The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur.

There's only one policy of any kind that has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the highly regarded economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.

And the effect was not small. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.

When there are no armed citizens to stop mass murderers, the killers are able to shoot unabated, even pausing to reload their weapons, until they get bored and stop. Some stop only when their trigger fingers develop carpal tunnel syndrome. - Continue reading > >

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Blog author's comments - Guns in the hands of those who obey the law mean less crime and a safer community and country.

After the Tucson shooting the liberals as usual saw a crisis they did not want to waste and once again began talking about gun control.

Soon we will probably hear from Barack Obama with his list of items to chip away at the Second Amendment.

More Guns Equal Less Crime Across the USA: 2010
FBI Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report
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* Here's the obvious: If you're a criminal - do you break into a house where a little old lady will shoot you or where a helpless victim is easy prey?

* If you're a criminal - do you care anything about the law? Obviously not! Isn't it naive to believe criminals will follow gun control laws?

* Why have we let our government legislate us into becoming potential victims? Criminals have guns while law-abiding citizens are left helpless.

* Why should criminals carry guns while law-abiding citizens are prohibited?

* Why add more gun control laws when criminals clearly ignore existing gun control laws?

* Any gun control that restricts law-abiding citizens is ridiculous - we're not the people who commit crimes.

* More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens will lower crime and make the world a better place.

* One more quick point: If gun control works - why is crime so high in Washington D.C.? After all, guns are barely allowed in D.C.

h/t: squidoo.com