10-30-2019, 10:04 PM
(10-30-2019, 09:03 PM)Goalpost Wrote: https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
So this is Gallup. It comes from 2016. There are other sources more current that reflect similar. The reason I'm using them is that they show the trend as it has decelerated from the mid 50's down to it's current level. They call it 'mass' media, which I think is fair you would question me to post it as 'mainstream'. Many of the current polls call it mainstream. The deterioration is mostly significant thru Republicans, although the trend is heading the wrong way also with independents and to less extent Democrats. The prior election showed a severe drop, not surprising how it went.
I think the chart shows 1997 thru 2016.
As I wrote earlier, we have entered the age of a second Cold War. Putin has successfully undermined American’s faith in a free press. Putin has successfully waged a misinformation and propaganda campaign using social media platforms. Putin has successfully waged electronic warfare to hack political networks to influence our political system to install his preferred candidate in the highest political office in the land. Putin’s preferred candidate has attacked our media, intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, the State Department, our foreign diplomats, and even individual active duty soldiers sworn to defend America, among others. Putin is using women and money to influence lobbyists to influence politicians. Withholding aid to the Ukraine furthers Russia’s foreign policy in the region, not the United States’. Withdrawing American military forces from Syria and abandoning the Kurds furthers Russia’s foreign policy in the region, not the United States’.
People, especially politicians, need to wake the F up to Putin’s game.
