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Trump administration seen as more truthful than news media: poll
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Bruce Springsteen
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Nothing wrong with holding the media accountable, but I can see the argument with the Trump administration being perhaps bold with it
we should not forget that white house administrations aren't exactly always friendly with the media, historically speaking
we should not forget that white house administrations aren't exactly always friendly with the media, historically speaking
One poll had Hillsry up 12%. One of the few that called it, The Los Angeles Times, had a guy at the top who literally said he felt what was in his gut and adjusted the numbers to what he felt accordingly. He was a fluke.
Darth Pinche
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Iit was close to 50/50 results with a 4% margin of error. So useless results.
Gordon Shumway
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Shit eating idiots are shit eating idiots. Checks out..
Raven117
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We are through the looking glass here people.
News Organizations, I want to give a special fuck you. While all you assholes for pandering to the lowest common denominator, giving editorials more than news, basically becoming entertainment and pandering to any one side...you have collectively lost the trust of all us.
You, yes you, help create Trump by not only covering him non-stop because he was good for raitings but also failing to do your job and bash Obama constantly thus giving at the very least an appearance of impropriety.
As such, Americans have lost faith in you and now we are being lied to by our politicans because you failed us.
Thank you "News Organizations." You were expressly mentioned in the Constitution, and you fucked up.
Thanks,
Very angry,
Raven117
News Organizations, I want to give a special fuck you. While all you assholes for pandering to the lowest common denominator, giving editorials more than news, basically becoming entertainment and pandering to any one side...you have collectively lost the trust of all us.
You, yes you, help create Trump by not only covering him non-stop because he was good for raitings but also failing to do your job and bash Obama constantly thus giving at the very least an appearance of impropriety.
As such, Americans have lost faith in you and now we are being lied to by our politicans because you failed us.
Thank you "News Organizations." You were expressly mentioned in the Constitution, and you fucked up.
Thanks,
Very angry,
Raven117
No, no we don't. No one deserves to suffer.
nature boy
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Emerson College? Garbage poll (landline only).
My only hope is that the poll was conducted in a Conservative-heavy location. There's too much blowback for this to be accurate, right?
right
This unfortunately...sigh.
How to determine a sample size:
https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/determining-sample-size/
A sample size calculator for your convenience:
http://www.nss.gov.au/nss/home.nsf/pages/Sample+size+calculator
If you input into that calculator:
Confidence Level: 95%
Population Size: 9999999 (It's okay if it is large because that is usually for something unknown)
Proportion: 0.5 (Standard for conservative estimate of variance)
Confidence Interval: 0.05 (Accuracy of the result within 5% which is usually standard)
You can leave the rest blank and click on calculate. It will fill the rest in and give you a sample size of 385 (Which is the same as that qualtrics linked example) as the minimum you need to have good results from a survey. Otherwise, in statistics there are other ways to use the data and do a different kind of test if the sample size is "too small" in which I am talking about n < 20
You can put 617 for your sample size if you want to see how it differs from the 385 example I gave regarding error rates.
The Artisan
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what "ending" are we talking about here
Vermillion
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Oh well, America was fun while it lasted.
I guess I just hope the people that think it's truthful get hurt the most by this administration.
But who am I kidding.
I guess I just hope the people that think it's truthful get hurt the most by this administration.
But who am I kidding.
Not really. Especially not after realizing that progress may have peaked for several decades (if ever in my life time).
You weren't a fan of the Daily Show? If you are then I suggest you reflect on how poorly the media has done their job for the last 15 years. Heck look how poorly Trump was mishandled during the primaries and election. Not too many outlets were consistent in exposing his flaws until it was way too late and some still were slow to react properly to his election bid.
Mammoth Jones
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People have had an axe to grind against the liberal media for decades. This shouldn't shock anyone. Keep in mind a great many people voted Trump to "shake things up".
The fact that liberals are losing they minds is good enough for them.
Sadly I think in the long term it's gonna fuck em over when the results of the policies come to fruition...
The fact that liberals are losing they minds is good enough for them.
Sadly I think in the long term it's gonna fuck em over when the results of the policies come to fruition...
jesus christ
i would really like to see any of these whackjobs cite one (1) recent example of any major news outlet being purposely "untruthful"
No joke.
ArkhamFantasy
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We're not gonna make it are we? People i mean.
20cent
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and 10 in 11 Democrats are human garbage stains, so?
Dead in the brain and rotten in the heart. There's no redemption from this.
Vegetable Lasagna
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BREAKING NEWS: IDIOTS GOING TO BE IDIOTS. MORE AT 10.
Is this even a surprise? Same reason the orange turd got elected in the first place.
Is this even a surprise? Same reason the orange turd got elected in the first place.
ShaperofStories
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It's in our nature to destroy ourselves.
Fox Mulder
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What the fuck can you even do with this shit. America is broken.
Elaugaufein
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"Data was collected using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system of landlines only"
Collecting poll numbers through landlines could skew the results quite a bit. At least if I remember my statistics class correctly
Competent pollsters adjust data based off known differences for this sort of thing so it may not mean much (but it may also lead to overfitting where say if one of the few young people picked up is an outlier they end up with disproportionate weight).
ArkhamFantasy
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This was decades of hard work from the republicans and right wing media to convince everyone not to believe anything that the media tells you. This isnt getting fixed anytime soon.
John Kowalski
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To be completely honest i hardly remember what it was like before Trump. I remember a lot of buzz around transgender folk and bathrooms... oh, such was the desire to hide discrimination in such obvious rags of the cheapest cloth. Today even that is too much effort.
excelsiorlef
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I mean this makes sense... the GOP stats tilt the overall and enough left wingers believe the media is corrupt for completely different reasons to not be able to make up the difference between the two stats.
manfestival
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I only came here to lurk and then.. I saw this marvelous gif
We're doomed.
Elaugaufein
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Yup. This. You'd get very different Democratic responses at least if the question was "Is the current Administration more honest than the Media".
Yeah, but the Trump org basically lies constantly. It's still shocking people would call them trustworthy or truthful... At all to me. I think most major news orgs do a fairly good job nowadays. Fox is really the only major exception there and even on it, if you ignore panels and opinion shows it's somewhat passable.
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