During her daily battle with the establishment press yesterday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders told those so-called journalists that she’s more credible than they are. Sanders told a reporter, “Frankly, I think my credibility is probably higher than the media’s. And I think that in large part, that’s because you guys spend more of your time focused on attacking the president instead of reporting the news.” (RELATED: CNN’s Acosta Throws Another Tantrum, Sarah Sanders Puts Him In His Place).
She continued: “I think that if you spent more time reporting the news instead of trying to tear me down, you might actually see we’re working hard trying to provide you good information and provide that same good information to the American people.”
That response came after she was pressed on an apparently false statement she made months ago.
And the thing is, when it comes to credibility, she’s right. The American public trusts Sarah Huckabee Sanders more than they do the journalists who regularly grill her. According to MediaPost’s Research Intelligencer:
Asked who is more credible, 51.6% of American adults surveyed by Research Intelligencer and Pollfish said Sanders is vs. a close minority of 48.4% who said the journalists who cover the White House are.
Trust in the media hit an all-time low the month that President Donald Trump took office, and only fell further during his first year, from 47 percent to 42 percent. For whatever reason, trust in the media tends to fall during tougher economic times, and rise during economic upturns, so it’s interesting to see trust in the media falling as the stock market touches record highs, and unemployment is at record lows.
The main culprit could be the obvious bias in coverage during Trump’s administration (and before that, on the campaign trail). It’s no secret that the media leans left, but never before have they collectively been against one President before as they are now. While 37 percent of Americans saw “a great deal” of media bias as Obama began his second term, that number inched up to 45 percent when Trump took office and is only heading further upward.
The media only has themselves to blame for the American public not trusting them. Perhaps my favorite recent example illustrating just how oblivious the press is to why nobody trusts them came from New York Times reporter Julie Davis, who tweeted out the following “depressing sight” from a Trump rally she was at to cover.
Depressing sight at Trump rally in Nashville: adorable young boy, probly about my son's age, pointing iPhone at me & other reporters & snapping pix while screaming "FAKE NEWS!" A child who will grow up believing a free & fair press is the enemy, a bad thing, to be mocked & hated
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 30, 2018
The next day, she had to issue a correction for understating the true size of the rally by over 80%. At a rally that over 5,500 attended, Davis reported that only 1000 did.
President @realDonaldTrump is correct about his crowd last night. My estimate was way off, and we have corrected our story to reflect the fire marshal’s estimate of 5,500 people. When we get it wrong, we say so. https://t.co/AX2JkAMyh4 https://t.co/2LbfmkiSti
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 30, 2018
The only person who doesn’t think the media is out of touch, are members of the media themselves!
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