Joe Concha: "Media Cover Trump 92% Negatively, But Have Little Impact.........Here's Why"

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Those little phrases that now routinely get tacked onto article titles...like "here's why"...bug me. Does anybody really think you're not going to offer a hypothesis about why the alleged phenomenon is allegedly happening?

   Anyway.

   It seems that Concha's explanation is that the MSM has lost credibility, so few believe them. I'd add an explanation of why they've lost credibility: because they are so obviously politically biased. We could test this hypothesis by asking how credible people think political stories reported by the MSM are as opposed to how credible they think the non-political ones are. 

   This reminds me of studies showing that, despite the leftist bias of universities, few students change their minds much about politics during college. In each case, one could explain the finding in terms of one group recognizing the bias of the group that is allegedly informing them.

   There are other possible explanations, of course.