re: Poll: 42% of Republicans Believe Accurate – But Negative – Stories Qualify as Fake News

Same Poll says that only 42% of Democrats believe that "Knowingly portraying false information as though it were true" is Fake News. My hunch is that these questions and available responses were not clearly understood.

These surveys are often super biased and write questions that lead to the desired responses. Anybody who's ever studied statistics or data can tell you this.

That said, you can double that percentage of the republicans on this board. Just last night Hail posted a shitty fake meme about Sanger w a totally made up quote, 45 upvotes & 4 downvotes. A couple posts later I actually called him out, made it clear she never actually said that, 11 down votes & 1 upvote (although I was kind of snarky).

This poll is hitting on some real truth in our country (on both sides), the truth is now something you can google search until you find it in a form that you like. Anything else? people call it fake news.

It's a dangerous trend in my opinion, doesn't benefit anyone except those in the media industry. It's creating an even bigger political divide that probably shouldn't be there.

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Fake News defines what is "accurate" and conducts poll based on flawed premise.

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It was a Gallup-Knight Foundation survey. WaPo quoted the number from the survey.

I guess you make up part of the 42%.

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How does the media answer for over 90% negative coverage when Trump is winning nearly every traditional measure of presidential success?

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How do you answer for the fact that the Wall Street Journal has 70% negative coverage of Trump?

Why do you keep pretending WSJ is conservative?

ETA: not that I expect 50/50 coverage of anything, but you know as well as I that a huge swath of journalism is recycled pieces from the AP, Reuters, etc.. mostly negative pieces that bleed into other rags. The issue with the media is systemic. I would venture a guess that drudge links mostly negative Trump stories, because that's pretty much all that's out there.

i Would like to see the exact question asked to those polled

The disconnect is likely in the definition of “accurate.”

Is the MSM accurate when they say “doctor ____ says trump shows signs of xyz?”
I guess that doc did say it but it’s bullshite. It’s them searching for opinions that fit their narrative, which is always the most negative spin possible, rather than them being objective with the goal of keeping the masses informed.

Just like when they found economists to predict stock market crashes, found professionals to state no wage growth or trickle down from tax cuts. It’s all complete bullshite, but then again those people did say it.

After being wrong at every turn, yes I consider that fake news. News is just opinion based propaganda these days. Basically what they pass for news these days isn’t real news

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 was a Gallup-Knight Foundation survey. WaPo quoted the number from the survey. 

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So?

Don't see the problem with this. If they are either negative or positive, they aren't objective reporting. If somebody considers news to be objective reporting, then negative stories qualify as fake news.

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WaPo stories are generally accurate.

However they taint facts with innuendo and inferences of greater nefarious things all the time especially on Trump.

Those negative Trump innuendos and inferences make WaPo fake news.

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This.

Hell, I was reading an article yesterday about international tourism in 2017. And the article went on and on about it being down in the US; leading with speculation that it was because of Trump. Then dropping at the very end of the article one line "However, much of the changes to international transit to the US are likely due to the strong US Dollar vs. other major currencies."

I think that study is fake news