Mediaite reports that a new NBC/WSJ poll is out which checks the approval and disapproval ratings for various individuals, two places, and three groups: the media, the GOP, and the Democratic party.

At the top of the list, the highest-approved entity, is Canada. "The nation of Canada has a net approval of 72 (75% approve, 3% disapprove)."

Coming in at number two and three are President Obama (51-39) and the nation of Mexico (38-26), respectively.

The Republican Party fares worse than the Democratic Party (-19 to -6).

The presidential candidates are in negative numbers. Hillary Clinton has a net approval of -15 (Melania Trump is higher) and Donald Trump is at -33. Their running mates "barely manage to remain in the positives (+7 for Tim Kaine, +1 for Mike Pence)."

But underneath Trump is the news media, with 19 percent approval and 59 percent disapproval, for a net of -40 (only 59 percent disapproval? We're surprised the figure isn't more like 99 percent). The news media are second-to-last on the list.

Pulling up the distant rear is Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, at a net approval rating of -60.

Newsbusters noted that the roundtable panel and host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball early Wednesday evening brushed aside and even mocked Americans for having a low opinion of the media. Instead of acknowledging that the heavily biased news media now openly believe their duty to be progressivism activism; instead of acknowledging that they are betraying the public trust by abandoning even a pretense of journalistic objectivity; instead of , they blame angry, distrustful Americans for “not actually looking at the facts” and considering facts to be "inconvenient obstacles," which is laughable hypocrisy coming from a liberal.

“I think the media is unpopular is because half the country, who are conservatives, have heard their leaders trash it," stated the brain-dead mumbler Matthews. "Continually, and that's relentless, and they blame the messenger."

Politico reporter Annie Karni whined about receiving negative comments from readers:

It’s funny. When I get negative e-mails or on Twitter people yelling at me as the media, it's always they have this vaunted image of, like, you've desecrated this sacred profession by whatever I've written and they seem to have this high bar of what it should be and that none of us are living up to that. 

It's not funny, Ms. Karni, it's the truth. Try to hold yourself and your peers to some kind of standard for once.