Polls suggest Americans have tuned out media in response to coronavirus

Americans are getting their coronavirus news from President Donald Trump’s press conferences and tuning out the liberal media’s selective coverage, polls suggest. A new Yahoo News/YouGov survey found that 81 percent of registered voters said they had listened to Trump’s daily briefings on the virus outbreak. According to the survey analysis, “about a quarter of Americans (25 percent) who have heard about President Trump in the last week rate his performance as ‘excellent.’ About one-third (36 percent) rated it ‘good’ or ‘fair.’ About two in five (39 percent) say it was ‘poor.’ ” Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard noted that “the survey followed demands by several liberal pundits that TV…