Why most conservatives don't trust the MSM...

[Crepitus]

They don't trust the MSM because they've been in the tank for the democrats since the late 70's. Foxnews upset the apple cart on October 7, 1996 when it introduced the OTHER side of the news.

They don’t trust the MSM because it doesn’t tell them what they want to hear. They trust FOX, even though FOX is the least trustworthy news source there is, and people who watch FOX are the least informed viewers in America, because FOX tells conservatives what they want to hear.

How do you figure that FOX News is the "least trustworthy" news source? They are the only network trying to expose the Clintons, Obama, the DNC, and the Democrat Party for the liars, perverts, and criminals they really are.

Meanwhile, the sock-puppet is running interference for them, just as they did during the 8 years of Obama. let me ask you this: For the whole 8 years Obama was in office, just when did they ever run a story trying to hold him accountable, or even question anything he said or did?

Even when Obama's AG Eric Holder came up with a scheme to put "assault weapons" in the hands of Mexican drug cartel members, we never heard a peep out of the MSM. Even though that resulted in the deaths of two American Border Patrol Agents, and an estimated 600 Mexican citizens.

How about the IRS scandal, where they were harassing conservative organizations? The Benghazi affair, where the American people were lied to and told that it was all the result of some obscure "Youtube video"?

How about the time when Obama had stacked up $1.8 billion dollars on the tarmac, headed to Iran, which used some of that money to finance the murder of American troops?

Then there's the time Hillary Clinton enabled the sale of 25% of our uranium reserves to Russia. Did we hear anything about that from the MSM, except that "Hillary dindu dat"?

The truth is, the crackhead media's purpose is to cover up and keep secret the criminal things the Democrats have been doing for the last 10 years while at the same time, to fabricate as many scandals against Donald Trump, as they can dream up.

It continues as of even now. Change your station over to FOX News and you will see that they are reporting on many stories. Then change over to MSNBC or CNN and all you're going to hear is "Stormy Daniels...Stormy Daniels...Stormy Daniels...Russian collusion...Mueller...Russian collusion..."

He's probly watched it.

 

[bripat9643]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

Ironic. That's exactly why gullible dumbfucks like you trust the MSM.

 

[Dragonlady]

They lie...the news media has an agenda and it doesn't favor conservatism...If you can't see it's favoritism of anything liberal it's because you don't want to...or you are as stupid as that chick Faun...^^^^^

Here’s the reality: it’s not that the main stream media doesn’t favour conservatism, facts don’t favour conservatism.

The conservative media is completely dishonest. Of course, if they told the truth, no one would ever vote for them.

Tax cuts don’t create jobs, and they don’t pay for themselves. Supply side economics don’t work, because it’s “supply and demand”. Without demand, it doesn’t matter how much product you make.

 

[eagle1462010]

They lie...the news media has an agenda and it doesn't favor conservatism...If you can't see it's favoritism of anything liberal it's because you don't want to...or you are as stupid as that chick Faun...^^^^^

Here’s the reality: it’s not that the main stream media doesn’t favour conservatism, facts don’t favour conservatism.

The conservative media is completely dishonest. Of course, if they told the truth, no one would ever vote for them.

Tax cuts don’t create jobs, and they don’t pay for themselves. Supply side economics don’t work, because it’s “supply and demand”. Without demand, it doesn’t matter how much product you make.

Hmmmmm

How could I have been so sooooo wrong........

Our State used tax incentives to get automobile manufacturers here..........and those companies built a plant and created thousands of jobs when they moved here............

If I'd only known what Dragon Lady knew about it..........Geesh.................IT'S PIXIE DUST that created them jobs............

And companies that make new products anticipating a demand for it.....................GEESH......they shouldn't invent NEW PRODUCTS.........HOW STUPID OF THEM..........

They should wait until this kind of demand is present and then produce it...........Here.......take a look

 

[usmbguest5318]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

I'm not sure what you mean by this....

Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

...But I know exactly what this means, and I'm inclined to agree with it. LOL

 

[Faun]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

So you are calling one of the most prestigious journalism schools in the nation of falsifying the poll? Well I couldn't agree with you MORE!
Using 3 times as many liberals in the poll of media credibility is totally a hallucination! And even more proof of the premise that the biased MSM corrupts people's perceptions!

Who said they falsified the poll? All you do is prove what I said to be 100% accurate.

a) The Missouri School of Journalism is an institute of education -- that is not the main stream media

b) The poll you cite is an unscientific non-probability online poll. By definition, it's not expected to produce reliable results as it's not based on a genuinely random sample of respondents, but off of whoever happened to see it or hear about it. -- That's the reason it is so heavily weighted towards Liberals. More Liberals just happened to be aware of the poll.

I can't believe how ******* retarded you are to start a thread about this.

Actually, that's sarcasm. I not only can believe you are this ******* retarded, I expect it because you're conservative. I mean, just how brain-dead do you have to be to ***** about the MSM being biased as evidenced by on unscientific poll produced by an non MSM entity?

 

[Faun]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

I'm not sure what you mean by this....

Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

...But I know exactly what this means, and I'm inclined to agree with it. LOL

To see what I mean -- see the previous post ^^^

 

[deannalw]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

I'm not sure what you mean by this....

Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

...But I know exactly what this means, and I'm inclined to agree with it. LOL

Oh lol
Hillary would love it

 

[Faun]

They lie...the news media has an agenda and it doesn't favor conservatism...If you can't see it's favoritism of anything liberal it's because you don't want to...or you are as stupid as that chick Faun...^^^^^

Here’s the reality: it’s not that the main stream media doesn’t favour conservatism, facts don’t favour conservatism.

The conservative media is completely dishonest. Of course, if they told the truth, no one would ever vote for them.

Tax cuts don’t create jobs, and they don’t pay for themselves. Supply side economics don’t work, because it’s “supply and demand”. Without demand, it doesn’t matter how much product you make.

What Trump's tax cuts are doing is injecting steroids into the national debt. Most people don't even see what's happening. But check this out....

Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)

The debt at the start of FY2018 when Trump's budget went into effect:

20,244,900,016,054

The debt on December 31st, 2018, the last day before Trump's tax cuts went into effect and 92 days since the start of FY2018:

20,492,746,546,193.75

That comes out to an increase of 2,693,984,023 per day, or 983,304,168,491 for a year

The debt as of yesterday:

21,071,123,981,792

That makes the increase of the first 87 days since Trump's cuts went into effect at 578,377,435,599, or an eye-popping 2,426,526,022,914 for a year.

It was estimated that Trump's tax cuts would add $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. Before the tax cuts, we were on pace to add $1 trillion in debt in a year. Now we're on pace to add $2.4 trillion. That's an additional $1.4 trillion more than before the tax cuts -- in one year.

 

[jillian]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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the answer is .... because you're uninformed, misinformed and only want to hear from other raging loons.

 

[Faun]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

Ironic. That's exactly why gullible dumbfucks like you trust the MSM.

Hisses the ******* moron who actually claimed David Hogg was not in school during the Douglas HS massacre even after being shown video of him on lockdown during the shooting.

But let's see you try and redeem the OP, if you can. Explain how an unscientific poll by a non MSM entity -- shows Liberal bias in the MSM.

 

[usmbguest5318]

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey
Trusting News Project Report 2017

More than two-thirds of those sampled (67.3%) reported being “likely”
(34.8%) or “very likely”
(32.5%) to believe mainstream journalism organizations
while 32.7% or respondents reported being “unlikely” (17.3%) or “very unlikely” (15.3%).
Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States.

So the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...
YEA...
So here is what they explain as to how they came up with the figures...
In addition to the demographic variables described above, respondents were asked to report their political ideology on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very conservative) to 5 (very liberal).
The distribution for political ideology can be seen in the bar plot below.
Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,” or a general preference among conservatives toward less mainstrean news sources. Future research conducted in collaboration with newsrooms should incorporate experimental and/or longitudinal study designs to better explain systematic differences in online samples.

So 8,728 people polled breaks down this way:

• very conservative 0.25% 22 people
• conservative 15.0% 1,309
• moderate 32.0% 2,793
• liberal 32.0% 2,793
• very liberal 15.0% 1,309

Totals
conservative/very conservative 1,331
Liberal/very liberal 4,102...
Think about it folks.. 3 times the number of liberals compared to conservatives!
IS THERE ANY Wonder why we conservatives DON"T TRUST THE MSM!!!

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Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

The poll you posted being submitted as evidence A

I'm not sure what you mean by this....

Most conservatives don’t trust the MSM because most conservatives are brain dead and can’t distinguish between reality and a hallucination.

...But I know exactly what this means, and I'm inclined to agree with it. LOL

Oh lol
Hillary would love it

One thing about a study, unlike a news story or news editorial, is that one must consider the study's methodology in terms of what the study aims to do. The OP-er did not consider this in determining to make his/her remarks about the study's merits/demerits. I discuss this later in the post.

Another key thing to keep in mind is whether, in making predictions based on the observed/obtained results of a study the researcher(s) accounted for proportional discrepancies between the sample subjects and the population at large from which the sample subjects came. The OP-er, in criticizing the survey, does not even mention such a thing, yet the survey's report does.

Data were collected in the February and March 2017 using an online survey made available to users (N = 8,728) of the digital media platforms of twenty-eight different newsrooms across the United States. Newsrooms included were Annenberg Media, Ball State Daily News, Casper Star-Tribune, Cincinnati Enquirer, Coloradoan, Columbia Missourian, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Evergrey, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fresno Bee, Jacksboro, Herald-Gazette, Kansas City Star, KUT, Lima News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, NBC, Ogden Standard-Examiner, Rains County Leader, San Angelo Standard-Times, Skagit Publishing, Springfield News-Leader, St. Louis Magazine, St. Louis Public Radio, Steamboat Pilot & Today, USA TODAY, WCPO, and WDET.

Locations of the Newsrooms that Made the Survey Available to Readers

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Due to unbalanced participation rates across newsrooms, it is possible a single newsroom with a high response rate could systematically bias statistical analyses. To address this concern, several steps were taken. First, in addition to having the names of the newsrooms associated with each observation, zip codes were reported by nearly all respondents (99.6%) in the sample....Second, weights were calculated assuming it would be more desirable to have an equal number of responses from each news room. Group level means were examine for a number of different cross-sections and no discernable pattern distinguishing the weighted and unweighted samples emerged. Finally, in addition to the linear regression models reported in the following section, multilevel models were also performed to directly model variability explained by differences between newsrooms rather than differences between individuals. As was the case with the survey weights, the results appeared consistent across all statistical solutions.​

Careful readers of the study's report will observe that weighting/adjusting the results to account for whatever may be differences attributable and corresponding to newsroom readers being from different parts of the country produced no statistically relevant difference in the data analytical and predictive value of the survey.


The point of the above is that while it is absolutely appropriate to criticize a study/survey on the basis of its methodology, the criticism one levies must be valid. To be valid, methodological criticism must be mindful of the entire methodology the researchers used and applied to the data, not merely to one trait of the data the study obtained, yet that last is precisely the approach/nature of criticism the OP-er presents. Two material dimensions of the OP-er's criticism are straight-up not valid, most especially not the criticism with regard to the ideological quantity and distribution of the survey participants.

So the President Trump scores low on University of Missouri journalism institute’s trustworthiness survey

8,728 people polled

Trump didn't score highly with liberal or conservatives. One will note that even among self-identified conservatives Trump scored notably lower than did Fox News and, on average, the most conservative (self-identified) didn't actually cite Trump as a trusted source.

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the authors congratulate themselves on supposedly so scientific so methodical research...

Actually they don't at all congratulate themselves. They merey published what they did, how they did it and what were the results.

Furthermore, as stated in the summary of the report, the goal of the project wasn't to identify what sources of information are most trusted; identifying that was but a ancillary result of the project. "The goal of the Trusting News project is to better understand elements of trust and distrust in the relationship between journalists and nonjournalists."

Overall, the sample leaned slighly liberal (M = 3.41, SD = 1.03), which could be a reflection of the specific newsrooms participating in the current investigation,
a tendency to among conservatives to avoid surveys conducted by “the media,”

What is there to say about that? If one (many) won't "stand up and be counted," then one's thoughts won't be counted. That's one's thoughts aren't counted and thus reflected is attributable to no one but oneself.

The researchers who conducted the noted survey haven't tried to hide any of the details about the nature of the people who responded to the survey, what respondents said, how the responses were used, etc. The researchers haven't tried to present their findings as something they're not or as being representative of people who did not participate in the survey.

Good, Lord! To make their report's work accessible to readers who may not understand statistical sampling, the study's authors go above and beyond what is typical of empirical research studies and explain what the chart above indicates, thereby giving all readers the ability to understand how to interpret it.

The plot below [the plot shown above in this post] depicts the “trusted” media sources with the highest and lowest mean estimates of political ideology—meaning, on average users who mentioned Rachel Maddow as a trusted source were an average of roughly 1.35 points more liberal than the scale’s midpoint, while users who mentioned Limbaugh were over 1.00 point more conservative than the scale’s midpoint.​

Talk about "spoon feeding" one's reader! Simple replacement allows any reader who finished the eighth grade to know what is represented by any row/line on the chart.

Still 3 times the number of liberals than conservatives in the poll which definitely biased the results!

Wow! Just wow. Have you no self-respect?

The researchers clearly describe the two, not one but two, adjustment methods they used to determine whether the imbalance in ideological representation that they observed -- surely you didn't think they didn't notice it -- made a statistical difference in the representational faithfulness of the results and thus their predictive models. They provided readers with all the information they need to replicate those tests of representational faithfulness. As if that weren't enough, they explained their layman's terms, and then I even explained to you what was errant about your assessment of the methodology and the data.

And rather than apply their rationale -- or present your own representational faithfulness approach for verifying the statistical significance/non-significance of the imbalance ideological participation/representation -- you response is to essentially repeat the same insipid assertion you made in your opening post.

I think you truly (1) do not understand what the result of the study is, and (2) do not understand what the "Least and most trusted news sources" chart depicts..

1. The result of the study is that the two models the researchers developed to predict, using a very basic set of traits endemic to viewers/readers, how much trust individuals/groups of individuals will place in a given news source accurately (enough) predict how much or little trust those individuals/groups indeed place in the news source in question.
   
   What is the value of that finding? Well, had you clicked on the study summary's link to the project of which it's a part, you'd come upon very clear explanations of what the value of it is. In addition to the news organization and newsroom beneficiary germanity, there is also application of the findings for news organization customers/contributors, though I cannot say to what extent news organization customers/contributors or what genre of news organization customers/contributors would avail themselves of the noted models.
2. The "Least and most trusted news sources" chart is nothing other than a graphical summarization of the raw data gathered for the study. Based on the raw responses alone, conservatives haven't got a damn thing to gripe about. The Economist is a conservative magazine and the WSJ is a conservative paper, and given their quantity of responses, pretty much "everyone" -- liberal and conservative -- trust both. Reuters is also highly trusted by almost "everyone." (I suspect plenty of folks don't like the information they get from nearly universally trusted sources, but readers' liking news and information isn't an objective for serious news organizations.)

I could tell from your OP's comments that you've confused the survey with the study used to obtain raw data for study itself. Hopefully, you'll read this post and then go re-read (or comprehensively read) the study. It's not at all a difficult one to read, at least not as studies go. That said, it does call readers to put more effort into reading and comprehending it than do newspapers.

 

[airplanemechanic]

All that fancy talk and can you explain why liberals were sampled at 3 times the rate of conservatives?

But no, there IS NO BIAS in the media. Sure there isn't.

That would be why Bernie Goldberg wrote a book entitled "BIAS" from working at CBS for decades.

 

[Faun]

All that fancy talk and can you explain why liberals were sampled at 3 times the rate of conservatives?

But no, there IS NO BIAS in the media. Sure there isn't.

That would be why Bernie Goldberg wrote a book entitled "BIAS" from working at CBS for decades.

You people are just ******* crazy, that’s the reason. Even after it’s explained, you still can’t understand.

Here, maybe this can help you?

Why You Shouldn’t Trust ‘Polls’ Conducted Online

 

[healthmyths]

All that fancy talk and can you explain why liberals were sampled at 3 times the rate of conservatives?

But no, there IS NO BIAS in the media. Sure there isn't.

That would be why Bernie Goldberg wrote a book entitled "BIAS" from working at CBS for decades.

You people are just ******* crazy, that’s the reason. Even after it’s explained, you still can’t understand.

Here, maybe this can help you?

Why You Shouldn’t Trust ‘Polls’ Conducted Online

The report shows that the mainstream polls oversample an average of 29 percent more Democrats than Republicans and the results skew anti-Trump. The result is that it robs Trump of about 8 points in his approval ratings, from 46 percent to 38 percent, it said.
"In every poll, Democrat respondents outnumbered Republicans by significant amounts.
The Economist poll was the worst.
Only 24 percent of respondents (360) were Republicans compared to 38 percent (570) Democrats – which means that 58 percent more Democrats were polled than Republicans, as shown in the %D/R column.
On average, in these seven widely recognized national polls, only 29 percent (409 people) of the total 1,383 polled were Republicans, while 37 percent (518) were Democrats. Another way of saying it is that, on average, 29 percent more Democrats than Republicans were polled," wrote James Simpson, an economist, businessman and journalist.

'Fraud': Mainstream polls use 29% more Democrats than Republicans

It is consistently the way pollsters influence public opinion which influences politicians that make policies that affect all our lives.
It is wrong and only through educating more people that the MSM IS biased that headlines/30 second sound bites should be questioned and NOT believed!

I've constantly used the example "Trump anti-immigrant" and as this Google search shows..
Look at the headlines.."Trump's Anti-Immigrant Racism"... "Anti-Immigrant Agenda"...
Why don't they be honest and use the accurate word "ILLEGAL"?
With those biased headlines the MSM doesn't seem to realize they are not only calling Trump "anti-immigrant" (who by the way has a LEGAL Immigrant for a wife who like millions of
"LEGAL" immigrants like relatives of mine renounced their country's citizenship to become Americans!) The MSM seems to forget that over 90 million Americans like me or like my "LEGAL" immigrant relatives are grossly offended and consequently DISBELIEVE anything the MSM puts out because these 90 million plus Trump ARE NOT ANTI-IMMIGRANT!

 

[airplanemechanic]

They don’t trust the MSM because it doesn’t tell them what they want to hear.

No it doesn't. They want to hear the news, unbiased and straightforward. And the MSM definitely does NOT provide that.

 

[airplanemechanic]

I'd also like to point out that, the two presidential elections held after FNC went on the air were won by Republicans.

I'm excluding the one in 1996 that happened 20 days after they went on the air. They didn't have time to effect anything in 20 days. But after that.....they changed news forever.

 

[healthmyths]

I'd also like to point out that, the two presidential elections held after FNC went on the air were won by Republicans.

I'm excluding the one in 1996 that happened 20 days after they went on the air. They didn't have time to effect anything in 20 days. But after that.....they changed news forever.

I agree! You are right. FNC did balance the MSM one sided news presentation.
Up to then we had the "most trusted name in TV..Walter Cronkite"... who in the words of Lyndon Johnson...
Military Victory But Political Defeat: The Tet Offensive 50 Years Later
What Cronkite saw on the ground led him to go on TV and say it was time for the U.S. to end the war.
"The only rational way out then," Cronkite said to a national audience, "will be to negotiate not as victims but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could."
[President] Johnson is said to have told an aide, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."

I remember that as I was only able to get the 3 networks and they all were anti-America at that time.
So YES... I agree... FNC brought BALANCE to the news presentation as did Rush, Hannity,etc.!

 

[Faun]

All that fancy talk and can you explain why liberals were sampled at 3 times the rate of conservatives?

But no, there IS NO BIAS in the media. Sure there isn't.

That would be why Bernie Goldberg wrote a book entitled "BIAS" from working at CBS for decades.

You people are just ******* crazy, that’s the reason. Even after it’s explained, you still can’t understand.

Here, maybe this can help you?

Why You Shouldn’t Trust ‘Polls’ Conducted Online

The report shows that the mainstream polls oversample an average of 29 percent more Democrats than Republicans and the results skew anti-Trump. The result is that it robs Trump of about 8 points in his approval ratings, from 46 percent to 38 percent, it said.
"In every poll, Democrat respondents outnumbered Republicans by significant amounts.
The Economist poll was the worst.
Only 24 percent of respondents (360) were Republicans compared to 38 percent (570) Democrats – which means that 58 percent more Democrats were polled than Republicans, as shown in the %D/R column.
On average, in these seven widely recognized national polls, only 29 percent (409 people) of the total 1,383 polled were Republicans, while 37 percent (518) were Democrats. Another way of saying it is that, on average, 29 percent more Democrats than Republicans were polled," wrote James Simpson, an economist, businessman and journalist.

'Fraud': Mainstream polls use 29% more Democrats than Republicans

It is consistently the way pollsters influence public opinion which influences politicians that make policies that affect all our lives.
It is wrong and only through educating more people that the MSM IS biased that headlines/30 second sound bites should be questioned and NOT believed!

I've constantly used the example "Trump anti-immigrant" and as this Google search shows..
Look at the headlines.."Trump's Anti-Immigrant Racism"... "Anti-Immigrant Agenda"...
Why don't they be honest and use the accurate word "ILLEGAL"?
With those biased headlines the MSM doesn't seem to realize they are not only calling Trump "anti-immigrant" (who by the way has a LEGAL Immigrant for a wife who like millions of
"LEGAL" immigrants like relatives of mine renounced their country's citizenship to become Americans!) The MSM seems to forget that over 90 million Americans like me or like my "LEGAL" immigrant relatives are grossly offended and consequently DISBELIEVE anything the MSM puts out because these 90 million plus Trump ARE NOT ANTI-IMMIGRANT!
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Democrats also outnumber Republicans. And despite oversampling Democrats, scientific polling is very accurate. Almost always coming within the Margin of error, which is all that is expected.

 

[Likkmee]

MSM,MSG, M.O.U.S.E. Avoid them all.