College Educated and Democrats Most Likely to Find News Media Credible According to Gallop

A recent Gallop poll found:

• 14% of Republicans believe news media get the facts straight
• 62% of Democrats agree
• College-educated are most likely to find news media credible

Apparently, college educated and democrats are most likely to find the news media to be credible. Now, I'm no democrat, but I am college educated. And I don't always find the news media credible.

​It has been a long while - with the exception of this past week because of the hurricane - since I watched World News Tonight - I am tired of the constant onslaught of how horrible Trump is, and the lib slant to make him worse than he is. The last time I watched a cable news network was on election night, and that evening I had CNN on in one room and Fox on in the other room, and that was mostly because I was eager to watch them have a melt down (just be glad you weren't in that hotel room, because I was like a hamster on speed running back and forth for hours). 

I personally believe the news media is biased, and I find it hard to understand how people can argue that point when many in the MSM themselves have openly admitted it. At one point they tried to hide it, but in recent years they have been pretty open about it. They are liberally biased. 

That bias does lead to an issue with credibility. More attention is given to points that fit their narrative. Aspects that disprove their narrative tend to be left out. Support is given to groups and candidates that fit their narrative. You have a case of an election year where most of the coverage of Trump was negative even when he did something right, while most of the coverage of Clinton made her look like a divine angel that descended directly from heaven to lead our country. You have a media glorifying a violent leftist hate group like Antifa and painting them as heroes who are justified in their violence, even while videoing them committing crimes that could have killed someone (when they pulled that statue down in Durham, that thing could have killed someone, and no one cares). And a media more concerned with making Trump - and his wife - look bad that they spend more time discussing hats and shoes than the heroes in Houston and credible charities to give to other than the Red Cross. You've had fabricated stories, set ups, faked protests, staged interviews, candidates receiving debate questions... yeah. All you need is a simple Google search and most of that information can still be found somewhere within the first ten pages of that Google search. 

I do not, however, think the media out and out lies as often as many like to claim (they do occasionally). Look, I'm no fan of the MSM. You all know that by now. But I believe they have a tendency towards omitting information for a narrative, painting those they don't like negatively, etc., but they are reporting the news. Sometimes, folks see what they want to, though.

Here's an example. This video came out this week, and I have heard the howling of how staged this was. Look for yourself, and then let's discuss. 

Whole articles have been written on how this was staged, and why they believe so. Basically, the reporter runs off to rescue a guy trapped in a truck. Everyone noticed that the reporter was wearing shorts, but during the clip of the rescue, he'd apparently changed into pants. Now do me a favor. Go back to the video, find that spot, and watch it very closely. Watch it with your ears, too. 

You hear the reporter asking for rope, then you see him run towards the truck. At this point, the camera gets blocked by a sign, and you can see the red jacket and gray shorts. When the camera comes back on, the reporter - wearing a red jacket and black pants - is seen pulling the guy from his truck. This is where they lost a lot of people. What happened to his shorts?

They were never there. When the camera gets blocked by the sign, you see the guy in the red jacket and gray shorts standing still and then begin to walk. During that entire time, you can hear the reporter running, his pants rubbing together. The sound follows the reporter and does not match the guy in the shorts. Watch it again, you'll notice it. Be willing to see and hear it.

The guy in the shorts isn't the reporter. I've heard he was the producer, I heard he was someone else. Whatever, I don't know who he is, but I do know he isn't the reporter. 

Was this staged? Maybe. But you haven't presented me with compelling evidence. All you gave me was disproved pretty easily by paying attention. 

It's been argued that a non-biased news source would never survive. People prefer to have their beliefs backed up. The media is, very obviously, biased, which would explain the gap in people who believe it is credible vs. those who don't. Democrats are more likely to find the MSM credible because their beliefs are being backed up, while Republicans believe it isn't credible because their beliefs aren't being backed up. Now, as I said, of course the MSM is biased and have admitted so openly. They have a narrative to push, and they do so by shining light on those people and ideas they like and casting shadow on those people and ideas they don't. They openly admitted to doing everything they could to support Hillary in the election. But the bottom line is that they are biased and tend to omit, but may not be outright lying as often as people claim. 

As I have always said, never depend on one media source alone. Never take the media at face value. Read both right and left leaning sources. And always do your own research. Some of the story is always getting left out, whether the source leans left or right. If you want the entire story, and the truth, you have to be open to working for it. The media is a business. They believe they exist not to inform but to instruct. Don't take their instruction. It's hard work, and it sometimes forces you to admit something you believe is wrong. But it's how you get the entire story and the truth. 

Yes, I understand most of you aren't news junkies like I am. I literally read news all day long. It would make some people crazy and it boggles the people around me. Any downtime, I'm reading news. I get you don't do that. My suggestion... find a story every day you really care about, and find the entire truth. If you can do that, do one a week. Force yourself to admit when things don't sound right or a story seems to be missing something. Then look the story up elsewhere. Only one source is talking about it and can't find it anywhere else at all? The story is crap. Only left leaning sites talk about it? Or only right leaning sites talk about it? The story is probably mostly crap with some truth sprinkled in. Find the truth. You found it on sites from the left and right but the story is different? There's where you need to work. Both stories have an element of truth. Piece it together.