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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News-poll shows that Trump is unpopular. Fox News-viewers attack Fox News as fake news.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/26/big-time-backlash-when-all-polling-on-donald-trump-is-dismissed-as-fake.htmlA Fox News poll came out the other night, and I tweeted some of the findings about President Trump.
No analysis, no commentary. Just a few numbers.
Trump approval at 40%, down from 45% last month. 53% say his agenda is coming apart; 44% say he's shaking up Washington.
And: 68% approve of DOJ naming a special counsel, 29% disapprove.
Well, youd have thought I had called for the presidents impeachment.
I practically got buried under an avalanche of angry tweets.
Most of them didnt seem to want to engage in an actual discussion. They just attacked me, Fox, and polling in general:
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Many are so persuaded that the media establishment has it in for Trump that they dont want to hear contrary information. They are tuning it out.
I know this because of the comments I get if I analyze anything from, say, the New York Times or Washington Post, even if the stories turn out to be true. And Fox News is no longer immune to these complaints.
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The troubling thing here is that we no longer agree on a common set of facts. Conservatives and liberals are increasingly in their own silos, turning to their own opinionated media sources and constructing their Facebook and Twitter feeds the same way.
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That's so sad. Fox News cannot leave the bubble of partisan hatred it created.
(Where's my violin? I must have misplaced it. It's so tiny.)
Maybe, instead of doing polls and reporting facts, Fox News should just go back to straight-up dabbling in in irresponsible and crazy conspiracy-theories as they did in the good old days (aka earlier this week).
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Fox News-poll shows that Trump is unpopular. Fox News-viewers attack Fox News as fake news. (Original Post)
DetlefK
May 2017
OP
They are deflecting from the fact that they pushed the wingnut Seth Rich conspiracy
emulatorloo
May 2017
#3
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)1. Isn't that called "The beast eating its own tail?" nt
treestar
(82,383 posts)2. OMG!
emulatorloo
(44,164 posts)3. They are deflecting from the fact that they pushed the wingnut Seth Rich conspiracy
that Hillary had Rich murdered and that poor poor Putin is totally innocent of interfering in our election.
Roger Ailes would be very pleased.