COVID-19 crisis: who do Americans trust and mistrust

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A recent Gallup poll for gauging the American public's opinion on the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by various figures and entities found that one particular group has done extremely suckworthy: the news media. In fact, of all the groups on the list that were asked about, the media was the only one that received negative marks regarding their approval.

As Gallup explains, “Americans are generally positive in their evaluations of how each of nine leaders and institutions has handled the response to the coronavirus situation. Eight of the nine receive majority positive ratings — led by U.S. hospitals, at 88% approval. Only the news media gets a more negative than positive review.”

Her confused look says it all

And now both CNN and MSNBC are considering not airing the daily updates by the President and the Coronavirus Task Force, evidently due to the fact that the broadcasts are making President Trump look competent and presidential. 

The news media was rated far worse than the CDC, Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, and even Congress, all of which had strong majority approval.

The public was asked, “Do you approve or disapprove of the way each of the following is handling the response to the coronavirus in the U.S.?” 

The responses by the public clearly rated the news media the worst, by far, than all other entities in the poll"

U.S. hospitals: 88% approve, 10% disapprove
Your child’s school or daycare: 83 – 9
Your state government: 82 -17
Your employer: 82 – 14
Government health agencies such as the CDC and NIH: 80 -17
Vice President Mike Pence: 61-32
President Donald Trump: 60 – 38
Congress: 59 – 37
The news media: 44 – 55

The Gallup data was collected from March 13 to 22, “with the field period starting on the same day President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, and spanning sharp increases in the number of documented cases in the U.S., as well as the number of deaths.”

Trump's overall approval rating climbed from 44% to 49% while he received a 60% approval for the way he's handling the coronavirus situation and keeping the public informed and calm. The left-leaning media has been critical of him no matter what he says or does about the situation and it seems as if people are beginning to see the hypocrisy of their assessments.

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Much of the disapproval of the media comes from Republicans whereby only 25% approve of how the media is covering the crisis; while 61% of Democrats approve. What was not explored in the poll was which media outlets were used by each group.

According to the Gallup survey, President Trump is winning this particular round of his years-long battle with the news media, which he hammered once again this week. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump accused the media of attempting to “keep our Country closed as long as possible” for political purposes. And while he says this in his inelegant manner, which may turn some people off, he is clearly correct in his assessment.

“The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success,” he tweeted Wednesday. “The real people want to get back to work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before!”

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response coordinator, called out exaggerated reporting on the coronavirus pandemic the same day Trump went after the media.

“I think the numbers that have been put out there are actually very frightening to people,” Dr. Birx said during a press conference on Wednesday. “But I can tell you if you go back and look at Wuhan and Hubei and all of these provinces, when they talk about 60,000 people being infected, even if you said, alright, well there’s asymptomatics and all of that, so you get to 600,000 people out of 80 million. That is nowhere close to the numbers that you see people putting out there. I think it has frightened the American people."



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