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Americans trust the media even less than they’re willing to admit, a comparison of what they say publicly and what they think privately reveals. A new study of American adults, conducted by the think tank Populace with the help of Gradient and YouGov, suggests that distrust of the media is actually much greater than traditional polls have found.

On CNN This Morning, David Frum says that JD Vance is a younger version of the racist, authoritarian, corrupt Donald Trump, with a law degree and a better haircut.

On Morning Joe, a furious Mika Brzezinski accuses the so-called "mainstream" media of "sanewashing" Donald Trump, never confronting him with his affronts to democracy as mentioned by Dick Cheney in his statement explaining why he will be voting for Kamala Harris. 

Statistics-based journalist-pollster Nate Silver, who previously worked at the New York Times and ABC News, had some internal insight into the media bias debate, saying out loud what we at NewsBusters know well, in his Monday post “Blaming the media is what got Democrats into this mess.” (The mess being President Biden’s disastrous debate performance and the feigned shock from the…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough clings to an article by Nate Cohn of the New York Times to keep hope alive for Biden's chances in the 2024 election. Scarborough also boasts about having predicted in 2016 that Trump could win, omitting the fact that just a few days before the 2016 election, he told worried Democrats; "Just relax. Don't go under your bed and get in the fetal position and get…

Not surprisingly, Disney-owned ABC went gaga Thursday over former President Trump being found guilty on all 34 counts brought by far-left Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg relating to the 2016 election, basking in the “incredible verdict” from New Yorkers that they claim had not only “broken” Trump in spirit, but will cause “a significant percentage” of voters to not vote for Trump. In turn, they…

MRC contributing writer Stephanie Hamill was a guest on Thursday’s The Balance on Newsmax with host Eric Bolling and former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon where they discussed MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough’s latest tizzy over a New York Times/Siena poll showing Trump leading in five out of six swing states.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accuses the New York Times of rigging polls against Biden in order to create clickbait news stories.  Scarborough also shouts down John Heilemann, who politely sought to slightly differ.

The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy? A new poll found only 14 percent of the public expressed a great deal of confidence in the media on their election-related information, while 52 percent have little or no confidence in their journalism.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough criticizes the media for stereotyping Trump supporters as "people are stumbling drunk out of their trailer park and shooting raccoons or something like that. " But Scarborough himself recently mocked Republican Jim Comer in similar fashion, describing him as saying, "we ain't really got nuthin' but a squirrel fryer and a hound dog," and "running for the hills.…

CBS News has added a latest installment to their ongoing series of panicked items conveying the current state of the race: a recap of their own poll showing former President Trump garnering greater trust on the economy in three key battleground states: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. The poll was covered as part of White House correspondent Weijia Jiang’s daily wrapup.