Media collusion against Trump is another screw up

Joe Concha:

With bash-Trump day, press acts like opposition party

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And, when they all say they're just here to report on the president fairly, accurately, objectively, without fear or favor or pushing a narrative, a majority of people regardless of party — Democrat, independent, Republican — will not trust the messenger.


That's not an opinion but a belief based on polls on the topic of media trust and bias.

An Axios and Survey Monkey poll of nearly 4,000 adults on June 27 showed 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believe “that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes," a finding in line with other recent polls conducted by Pew Research and Gallup.

No surprise there. But here's the part that should give pause to these editorial boards before lecturing readers on how noble they are and how horrible Trump is: In the same Axios/Survey Monkey poll, 79 percent of independents polled believe traditional outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories, at least sometimes. Even Democrats agree, by 53 percent. Overall number: 72 percent of respondents believe "traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading."

Trust in media plummeting to all-time lows isn't exactly a Trump phenomenon, either. All-time lows were hit several times under the previous administration, bottoming out in 2016 under President Obama with just 32 percent of the public overall saying they trusted the Fourth Estate, including 14 percent of Republicans and just 30 percent of independents.
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The Boston Globe led the coordinated effort among editorial boards. This is the same paper that ran on its front page, before Trump even took office, a hypothetical series of stories that "imagined" what the country will look like under his administration.

Fictional headlines included:

"Deportations To Begin." (They must be forgetting deportations hit record numbers under the Obama administration.)

"Markets sink as trade war looms." (The Dow is up more than 5,000 points since Inauguration Day in January 2017.)

"U.S. soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families." (ISIS has lost 98 percent of the territory it once controlled, or more than 40,000 square miles, since Trump took office. No reports of soldiers disobeying orders.)

These “imagined” headlines weren't satire reserved for the editorial page or the cartoon section. It was plastered on Page 1 to underscore some obvious points: We don't like Trump, we think he'll fail miserably and here's how.
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There is more including the much more egregious attacks on the media by the Obama administration.  The people running these media operations believe things that are not so and they see it as their mission to make everyone else believe things that are not so.