Even Liberals Don’t Trust ThinkProgress

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One of the tidbits in Pew’s journalism project ranked political orientation and which media outlets they trusted. There are few surprises here.

Liberals trust The Daily Show and Al Jazeera for their news coverage. Conservatives trust FOX News and Breitbart. Everyone trusts the Wall Street Journal and no one trusts BuzzFeed. That last shows there’s hope for America.

But lefty talking point spewing factory Think Progress gets surprisingly low scores even among liberals. Not only do conservatives distrust it, but the general public and those rated mostly liberal split on it.

That’s not good news for TP.

The Mostly Liberal group generally has the same habits as the consistently liberal. They only split on a handful of outlets. Think Progress, Al Jazeera, the Ed Schultz Show and DailyKos.

What this shows is that the consistently liberal group’s media outlets are distrusted outside their own narrow echo chamber. While lefties often hurl that accusation at the right, the Pew survey shows it’s quite true of them.

Think Progress isn’t reaching anyone outside of a small group of lefties. Its spin would go nowhere except for the fact that major media outlets, many of them in the trusted group, write their stories based on its content. That means that people need to be reminded that when they’re watching CNN or reading the Washington Post, they’re often just reading reprocessed ThinkProgress.

  • SoCalMike

    Not surprising so called “liberals” embrace Al Jazerra.
    During the Cold War many of them embraced Pravda in the same way they embrace and defend Islamic Jihad today.

    • The March Hare

      But then too, both they and Pravda were communists.

    • fmobler

      No need to look back to Pravda. They have RT now as well as Al Jazeera.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    “Reprocessed Think Progress.” Don’t you mean, “regurgitated”? Or, “re-gifted”?

  • tagalog

    …but when you acknowledge that our half millennium of love for reason has resulted in human progress, they’ll tell you you’re a progressive inside. Nonsense, but they’ll say whatever they think works.

  • Gee

    Trusting leftist news sites is kind of like reading Ha’aretz and thinking that it is an Israeli newspaper and that any Israelis actually read it.

    • tickletik

      What do Israelis read?

      • http://www.chaverimisrael.org Norbert Haag

        Aruty sheva or Israelnationalnews.com.

  • Oliver199

    Funny. I don’t see “Frontpage Mag” on the list.

    • UCSPanther

      Go back to your “Pravda”…

      • Oliver199

        Typical conservative: irrational fixation on communism, post USSR.

        • http://www.chaverimisrael.org Norbert Haag

          And you still hate capitalism and support dumb planned economy after the fall of the USSR.

          That should tell you how irrational, including you, your minions are.

          • Oliver199

            Wrong. Most progressives are against unbridled capitalism, a distinction most right wingers are either too obtuse to recognize, or deliberately obfuscate to push their talking points.
            “…support dumb planned economy..” English, please.

          • http://www.chaverimisrael.org Norbert Haag

            See that is what I meant, “unbridled capitalism” is planned economy.

            To make it short, what you call unbridled is the free exchange of goods and services between human beings. These exchanges are governed by the same laws the people are governed by. Theft, fraud and robbery for example are criminal acts in all human interactions. You don’t need special laws for a specific part of human action like economic actions. The only reason for them is to let the government rule over the economy.

            I call that, taking the word and the concept from economists that knew one thing or another about human interaction, planned economy.

            A sure way to cripple the possibility of prosperity in a nation.

            I hope that was clear English for you.

          • Oliver199

            Sorry, history is on my side. Lassez faire capitalism proves itself time and again to be its own worst enemy. Austrian economics perpetuated by cranks like Von Mises, et al will never be taken seriously as sound economic theory because it never makes correct predictions.

          • http://www.chaverimisrael.org Norbert Haag

            You are the same stupid kind of type like Hillary Clinton who tries to tell a gullible audience that economy never has provided a job.

            What kind if nut job are you?

            What are the sound economic predictions by say a sound economist like John Maynard Keynes that ever came to fruition?

            Give me a single one, only one.

            You won’t find it, and that is why you have to go back to name calling.

          • Oliver199

            Easy. First, economists said the Bush stimulus was too small, and as predicted, the recession was longer and deeper than it needed to be. Bonus: QEx was predicted by gold bugs that there would be runaway inflation due to flooding the market with money. Keynsians rightly predicted that with the undersized stimulus package, and with corps hoarding cash, this would be highly unlikely. In fact, the bigger danger was deflation, a far more pernicious situation. Japan was a perfect example of this. Google: Japan Lost Decade.

            You’re projecting. I’ve never name-called any of you. I suppose calling Mises a crank might be a little harsh, but the fact that not one single country has whole-heartedly embraced his economic theories in all the decades of Austrian economics, qualifies him as such.

            You, however, have called me stupid and a nut-job.