That's one thing regarding the bad news articles, but they also conducted some surveys among El Salvador citizens. Many of them don't even know what it means or what it is supposed to be useful for to make Bitcoin legal tender, but here is the thing: change will always meet resistance. We have seen that with Bitcoin right from the start. People need time to understand their options and how it could help them or maybe not help them. How should you have an informed opinion about something that you don't understand?
I don't trust these opinion polls. The numbers can change a lot, depending on the language that you use. For example, you can ask a question like this -
1. Do you support the recent move by the El Salvador government to make Bitcoin as the legal tender? This would mean that each and every business has an obligation to accept Bitcoin, which is a very volatile currency that can swing up or down by as much as 30% in a day.
The same question can be asked in a different language, like this:
2. Do you support making Bitcoin the legal tender in El Salvador along with the US Dollar? Do you support giving the merchants an additional payment option in the form of Bitcoin?
Now if you ask the first question, then the vast majority would answer NO. But the response would change, if you ask the second question. And the media channels which conduct the poll will never tell you about this. They will never provide the full questionnaire in their article.