In the not fake news category, a new survey reports that a majority of Americans believe that the mainstream media coverage of President Trump has been too negative.
Is the mainstream media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency too negative?
Overall, 57 percent said the coverage is anti Trump compared to 44 percent who don’t, according to a new Zogby Analytics poll provided to Secrets.
And it’s not just Republicans, who share that view by a bigger margin, 87 percent to 13 percent.
The polling outfit revealed that independents, African Americans and women agree.
From the survey analysis:
In our recent nationwide online survey of 856 likely U.S. voters, conducted from June 14 to June 16, 2017 we analyzed voters’ attitudes regarding President Trump and the mainstream media’s coverage of his presidency. The margin of error for this survey was +/- 3.4 percentage points.
A majority of likely voters (57%) believe the mainstream media’s coverage of Trump is too negative and 44% disagree. While the President has been known to slam media outlets for “fake news”, our poll shows voters are not crazy about the mainstream media’s coverage of the Trump presidency.
With exception to traditional Democratic sub-groups, such as younger voters 18-29-44% yes/56% no, lower income voters earning less than $25k annually-50% yes/50% no and western voters—49% yes/51% no, a majority of almost every other major sub-group believes the mainstream media’s coverage of President Trump is too negative. Even women-55% yes/45% no and African Americans-51% yes/49% no, agree that mainstream media coverage is too negative; both of whom traditionally do not give high marks to Trump.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
