Schumer Claims the NY Times Poll Is Biased Against Democrats

Senator Schumer didn’t like the NY Times/Siena poll finding that Democrats are to blame for the shutdown so he claimed they were biased.

The far-left media outlet is an arm of the Democrat Party.

His absurd comment brought laughter.

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The Gallup poll found the Demcorat mainstream media arm is considered less trustworthy than last year.

Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago.

Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%).

When Gallup began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, between 68% and 72% of Americans expressed confidence in reporting. However, by the next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%. Media trust remained just above 50% until it dropped to 44% in 2004, and it has not risen to the majority level since. The highest reading in the past decade was 45% in 2018, which came just two years after confidence had collapsed amid the divisive 2016 presidential campaign.

Sixty-two percent of Republicans choose “none at all” when asked about their confidence level in the media. It’s not much better among independents either, where the great/fair level matches the series’ historical low of 27% found in last year’s iteration. The new overall low is now being driven by Democrats, where great/fair confidence fell to its 2016 nadir of 51%.

And they are telling Democrats what they want to hear.