Majority Believe Mainstream Media Reports Fake News According to New Poll

In an era of pure propaganda, activist media networks, planted stories, shilling for foreign wars and glorifying smut, it is encouraging that many Americans are starting to get the idea that they are constantly being lied to.

In the scorched earth war against President Trump that has been waged across television screens, newspapers, magazines, and social media, the biggest casualty may end up being those biased and dishonest organizations that would rather burn their own reputations down than see the POTUS succeed.

A new poll by Monmouth University is bad news for the mainstream media which thanks to its own transparent far-left agenda are becoming less trusted by the day and for a damned good reason.

THEY LIE!

According to the poll, a whopping 77 percent of respondents believe that the mainstream media reports fake news – nice job CNN, you have been the forerunner in turning the entire press into a mockery that is about as free as one would expect in North Korea or Putin’s Russia.

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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 6, 2018

Via The Washington Examiner “Poll: 77% say media reports ‘fake news’”:

Those believing that the media reports “fake news” has surged in the past year to more than three out of four Americans.

According to the latest Monmouth University poll, 77 percent believe the media at least occasionally engages in reporting fake news, and they blame those trying to plant false stories as well as editors.

That is sharply up from the 63 percent who believed it a year ago.

According to Monmouth:

The news about “fake news” is not good, according to the Monmouth University Poll. Large majorities of the American public believe that traditional media outlets engage in reporting fake news and that outside sources are actively trying to plant fake stories in the mainstream media. When it comes to the meaning of “fake news,” a majority believe that it involves editorial decisions as well as inaccurate reporting. The public feels that social media platforms are partly to blame for the spread of fake news and are not doing enough to stop it. The poll also finds that Pres. Trump continues to be less trusted than the major cable news outlets as an information source.

More than 3-in-4 Americans believe that traditional major TV and newspaper media outlets report “fake news,” including 31% who believe this happens regularly and 46% who say it happens occasionally. The 77% who believe fake news reporting happens at least occasionally has increased significantly from 63% of the public who felt that way last year.

The downside is that there is little faith in President Trump but that in and of itself is a testament to the effectiveness of the rolling smear campaigns that the MSM has been engaged in for nearly three years and especially since the election.

One more reason to support independent media.