POLL CONFIRMS 77% THINK ‘TRADITIONAL’ MEDIA IS FAKE NEWS
Trump Tweets “Fake News Networks” have a “sick and biased AGENDA.”
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
APRIL 3, 2018
A new Monmouth University poll finds that over three quarters of Americans believe that the old media, that being the likes of CNN and The New York Times, regularly report ‘fake news’.
The survey asked respondents “Do you think some traditional major news sources like TV and newspapers ever report fake news stories, or not?”
A majority of 77 percent replied in the affirmative, an increase of 14 percent on last year.
Further breaking down the figures, 31 percent said the believe it happens regularly, while 46 percent said they think it happens occasionally.
Less than a quarter, just 21 percent, said they do not believe the legacy media reports fake news, a drop from 32 percent on last year’s findings.
The survey also probed further, asking “Do you think these sources report these stories on purpose in order to push an agenda or do they tend to report them more by accident or because of poor fact checking?”
Most respondents, 42 percent, said they believe it is to “push an agenda,” while 26 percent went with “poor fact checking,” and only seven percent answered “both equally.”
In addition, the survey found that 83 percent believe special interest groups are intentionally trying to implant false information into the news cycle. A further 87 percent said that they believe those interest groups have tentacles in social media sites and YouTube.
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