{"id":2451959,"date":"2025-06-25T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-ignoring-fake-media-outrage-gives-trump-higher-approval-rating\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:45:26","slug":"nyt-ignoring-fake-media-outrage-gives-trump-higher-approval-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-ignoring-fake-media-outrage-gives-trump-higher-approval-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Ignoring Fake Media Outrage Gives Trump Higher Approval Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-ignoring-fake-media-outrage-gives-trump-higher-approval-rating%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2451959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent piece from the New York Times which claims that individuals who are less engaged with the media tend to have a more favorable opinion of president Trump&#8217;s job performance.Citing a poll that showed a correlation between low awareness of negative news about Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-believe-border-situation-is-crisis-disapprove-of-how-biden-is-handling-it-cnn-poll\/\" title=\"Majority Believe Border Situation Is Crisis, Disapprove Of How Biden Is Handling It: CNN ...\">higher approval ratings<\/a>, the article critiques the Times for apparently trying to downplay Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >stable approval numbers amidst widespread media criticism<\/a>. The author, Eddie Scarry, asserts that manny people have become disenchanted with media narratives that are often exaggerated or misleading, leading them to ignore coverage related to Trump&#8217;s administration.He notes a pattern where those who are not informed about media-highlighted controversies tend to view Trump more positively, suggesting that consuming a steady diet of negative news may lead to more critical views of his presidency. Scarry concludes by encouraging readers to disregard media narratives that focus on chaos associated with Trump, implying that doing so could lead to a more positive outlook on his leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/54610476957\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Riley\/White House\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/25\/new-york-times-people-who-ignore-medias-fake-outrage-give-trump-higher-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=New%20York%20Times:%20People%20Who%20Ignore%20Media%E2%80%99s%20Fake%20Outrage%20Give%20Trump%20Higher%20Approval%20Rating&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/25\/new-york-times-people-who-ignore-medias-fake-outrage-give-trump-higher-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=New%20York%20Times:%20People%20Who%20Ignore%20Media%E2%80%99s%20Fake%20Outrage%20Give%20Trump%20Higher%20Approval%20Rating&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/25\/new-york-times-people-who-ignore-medias-fake-outrage-give-trump-higher-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/25\/new-york-times-people-who-ignore-medias-fake-outrage-give-trump-higher-approval-rating\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=New%20York%20Times:%20People%20Who%20Ignore%20Media%E2%80%99s%20Fake%20Outrage%20Give%20Trump%20Higher%20Approval%20Rating&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/25\/new-york-times-people-who-ignore-medias-fake-outrage-give-trump-higher-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>It was an incredible self-own when the New York Times recently ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/05\/18\/polls\/trump-job-approval-news-attention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a>, &ldquo;One Thing Helping Trump&rsquo;s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention.&rdquo; An alternate heading could have easily been, &ldquo;People Who Don&rsquo;t Read This Paper Infinitely Happier, Study Finds.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The article from mid-May, by Ruth Igielnik, was based on a Times\/Siena College poll that asked respondents whether they approved or not of President Trump&rsquo;s performance on various issues, including immigration and the economy. It also asked how informed they were on certain so-called &ldquo;major&rdquo; events. &ldquo;Voters who have not heard much about some of the many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-state-blues-the-prayer-of-the-press-secretary\/\" title=\"Blue State Blues: The Prayer of the Press Secretary\">major news events<\/a> from the first 100 days of Mr. Trump&rsquo;s second term have a higher opinion of the job he is doing &hellip;,&rdquo; wrote Igielnik. She added that &ldquo;little under half of the 42 percent of voters who approved of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president said they had not heard much about at least some of the ups and downs of his administration&rsquo;s decisions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-531183700\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The obvious point is to explain away Trump&rsquo;s approval numbers, which have remained relatively stable and unremarkable as far as modern presidencies go and in spite of ginned-up hysteria by the media. As of Tuesday, the Real Clear Politics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/approval-rating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">average<\/a> has the president with a 46.8 percent approval, about two points higher than his record low so far this term, and just under four points lower than his record high.<\/p>\n<p><em>People must not have heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/29\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-fake-chaos-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all the chaos<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By &ldquo;Major news events,&rdquo; Igielnik naturally means fake controversies manufactured by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somebody-tell-susan-glasser-to-sit-back-and-relax-this-time\/\" title=\"Somebody Tell Susan Glasser To Sit Back And Relax This Time\">dying news media<\/a>, such as the Times. Those would include the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/24\/judge-attempts-to-set-illegal-alien-abrego-garcia-free-further-squandering-courts-credibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a> saga, a period of stock market fluctuations, and a foreign student in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/12\/yes-the-trump-administration-has-the-power-to-deport-mahmoud-khalil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detained by authorities<\/a> for engaging in disruptive political protests &mdash; all of which the media put their backs into with the hopes of turning public opinion against the administration.<\/p>\n<p>It worked to some degree. On the made-up controversies mentioned, respondents who said they had heard about the story gave Trump a lower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under ..., Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">approval rating<\/a> than those who said they hadn&rsquo;t heard or had only heard very little, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than consider that consuming excessively negative (and fake) news would logically lead a person to a more negative view, Igielnik suggested it&rsquo;s a bigger problem that Trump&rsquo;s approval numbers aren&rsquo;t suffering more because a lot of people have obviously tuned her and her peers out after realizing how routinely deceptive their narratives are.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[T]he blitz of news can be hard to follow even for the most engaged voters,&rdquo; she wrote. &ldquo;In his first 100 days, Mr. Trump signed more executive orders than any other modern president, part of a strategy to make changes at such velocity that people could not possibly pay attention to all of them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe people are catching on to the manipulative game the media play. It&rsquo;s a tried and true tip: If the dying media are talking about &ldquo;chaos&rdquo; as it relates to Donald Trump, do yourself a favor and ignore it!<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/approval-rating\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Approval Rating<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/kilmar-abrego-garcia\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/polling\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Polling<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/propaganda-press\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">propaganda press<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/siena-college\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Siena College<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8217; 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