Donald trump and the GOP released a “Mainstream Media Accountability Poll” that more or less backs up his anti-press press conference from yesterday, even before the results are collected.
Here are a few of the questions.
Trump has a survey on his website about media bias. It would TERRIBLE if we all took it to balance out the results!https://t.co/KNkZXy1QrC pic.twitter.com/SD5dgA7po2
— Jordan Uhl (@JordanUhl) February 17, 2017
Fun poll https://t.co/utQlgZsXzy pic.twitter.com/piv4Sw63LM
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 16, 2017
From Trump’s new media survey. In full here: https://t.co/nROGfTQshq pic.twitter.com/HtaSdcgmqu
— Jeff Elder (@JeffElder) February 17, 2017
Take the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey! https://t.co/rp23exkXFk pic.twitter.com/5LHtRb7kDk
— David Hansen (@dhansenx) February 17, 2017
@EricOnSportsLaw oh, boy – RNC fundraising!https://t.co/YKm0DLblX1@SallySmith7920 pic.twitter.com/m0qUBfZeyp
— दिनेश कुलकर्णी (@TurgidsonBuck) February 17, 2017
this presidential poll isn’t weird or alarming at all
you can also donate? to the fight? against the media? https://t.co/zNzV3O2P82 pic.twitter.com/5uIkK4IbZB— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) February 17, 2017
As you might be able to tell, people are not so happy about how pointedly anti-media the questions are or the fact that after asking them, the survey collects participants’ email addresses, then asks for donations. Calls for left-leaning people to take the survey to “balance” out the responses are rampant on Twitter. Some are calling it blatant propaganda or worse.
The President of the United States has an online poll on the press’s coverage of him. It is deranged. Take it. https://t.co/5RQNFx5hew
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 16, 2017
Here, I took your ‘survey’ https://t.co/cSmkPRSK3M pic.twitter.com/0slqYcpOQJ
— Kate Crawford (@katecrawford) February 17, 2017
If you want to take it, the survey is on the GOP’s website — as well as Trump’s.
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