Gallup: Americans’ distrust of the media hits a new high

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so what we've been saying about BIAS..
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posted at 11:21 am on September 21, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
Whaaaaat? The American public is growing increasingly suspicious that they’re being fed a steady stream of waffle by a media establishment that does everything within its power to not only play up Romney’s “gaffes,” but to tell us in advance exactly how we should feel about them and to steamroll over President Obama’s failures, all while more or less glossing over the disastrous goings-on of the world at large? What is the world coming to! From Gallup:

Americans’ distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. Distrust is up from the past few years, when Americans were already more negative about the media than they had been in years prior to 2004. …

This year’s decline in media trust is driven by independents and Republicans. The 31% and 26%, respectively, who express a great deal or fair amount of trust are record lows and are down significantly from last year. Republicans’ level of trust this year is similar to what they expressed in the fall of 2008, implying that they are especially critical of election coverage.

Not surprisingly, when broken down by party, Democrats place the greatest trust in the mainstream media with 58 percent feeling a-okay with their news coverage, but only 26 percent of Republicans do. What is interesting, though, is that after independents’ trust in the media fell below the 50-percent mark in 2004, it’s only continued on a downward trajectory, and only 31 of independents today are feeling good about about the media painting a fair, accurate, and complete picture of the current political scene.

What has me really raising my eyebrow (the left one, to be specific), however, is how people replied to the question of whether or not they’re paying particularly close to this presidential-election news cycle.

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Gallup: Americans’ distrust of the media hits a new high « Hot Air
 
Of course. When even Fox is reporting Romney's rapidly dropping numbers, what else would Staph and the rest of the 'Conservatives' have left to say. And after the election, it will be all the media's fault.
 
Of course. When even Fox is reporting Romney's rapidly dropping numbers, what else would Staph and the rest of the 'Conservatives' have left to say. And after the election, it will be all the media's fault.

:rolleyes:
 
Of course. When even Fox is reporting Romney's rapidly dropping numbers, what else would Staph and the rest of the 'Conservatives' have left to say. And after the election, it will be all the media's fault.

Your lying ass fucking hero is in the midst of his Middle East debacle blowing up in his face, while across the world he - the President of the United States - burns in effigy because of his own incompetence, ignorance, and inexperience. And the jerk thought he could get away with covering his feckless administration's catastrophic intelligence screwup with lies until the election. But dead Americans are hard to hide, and folks know the game he tried to play.

In a few short weeks the people will send this jive talking fool back where he belongs.
 
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In this whole election mess of protecting obama's ass, the real loser, whether obama wins or not is going to be the media. Once trust is lost it may never be regained. The media has been lying to use ever since Walter Cronkite said the US lost the Tet Offensive.
 
Journalism is virtually dead, at least what it was.

Everyone has a slant.

Journalists call themselves the Gang of 500. They control what we see and hear. Since they are liberals, everything we get is liberal propaganda.
 
Journalism is virtually dead, at least what it was.

Everyone has a slant.

Journalists call themselves the Gang of 500. They control what we see and hear. Since they are liberals, everything we get is liberal propaganda.

The Blaze, Breitbart, drudge, newsmax, FoxNews, etc.. are liberal propaganda?

Interesting how you always up the ante of craziness.
 
You suggest that since there are some voices against liberal propaganda, it means that liberal propaganda doesn't exist. That's just not true.


ABC News published a weekday morning news summary called The Note beginning January 14, 2002. Mark Halperin founded The Note and coined the term “Gang of 500”—politicians, lobbyists, consultants, and journalists who shape Washington, DC’s political agenda. The term “Gang of 500” was used in 2004 and is still used, even though the Internet and Twitter have expanded the influence of many more people into politics.

The Big Apple: Gang of 500
 
You suggest that since there are some voices against liberal propaganda, it means that liberal propaganda doesn't exist. That's just not true.


ABC News published a weekday morning news summary called The Note beginning January 14, 2002. Mark Halperin founded The Note and coined the term “Gang of 500”—politicians, lobbyists, consultants, and journalists who shape Washington, DC’s political agenda. The term “Gang of 500” was used in 2004 and is still used, even though the Internet and Twitter have expanded the influence of many more people into politics.

The Big Apple: Gang of 500

That's not what I suggest, try again.
 
What I suggested, outright stated as a matter of fact, is that whether obama wins or loses, the big loser is the media which will have no credibility left after this election. As the OP started out, the media is losing credibility every time they come out with more propaganda.
 
Of course we should be suspicious of all media. Everything read or heard should be sifted for truth, not simply believed.
What is 'news' after all? It is what someone has chosen to tell us about something that may or may not have happened.
And also of course, that goes for stories about the past that are often referred to as history.
 
Of course we should be suspicious of all media. Everything read or heard should be sifted for truth, not simply believed.
What is 'news' after all? It is what someone has chosen to tell us about something that may or may not have happened.
And also of course, that goes for stories about the past that are often referred to as history.

History is made all the time. It is always amusing to listen to a revisionist tell me a version of history that I know from personal observation is untrue.
 
Simple solution. Replace 30 or so lying republicans from the house, a few more in the senate and when Obama is re-elected pass a bill that makes it illegal to knowingly decieve the American public... Not jail time except maybe for Murdoch and Ailes but stiff fines and possible loss of broadcast rights for repeat offenders. They are OUR airways. We can have them as truthful as we want them to be. Even the sky above us is our own. We can regulate it as we see fit. Satalites...cable should all be held accountable FOR TRUTH!
 
Journalism is virtually dead, at least what it was.

Everyone has a slant.

Journalists call themselves the Gang of 500. They control what we see and hear. Since they are liberals, everything we get is liberal propaganda.

The Blaze, Breitbart, drudge, newsmax, FoxNews, etc.. are liberal propaganda?

Interesting how you always up the ante of craziness.

FoxNews is about the only mainstream right leaning news agency.
The rest of those that lean right aren't the MSM.
 
Journalists call themselves the Gang of 500. They control what we see and hear. Since they are liberals, everything we get is liberal propaganda.

The Blaze, Breitbart, drudge, newsmax, FoxNews, etc.. are liberal propaganda?

Interesting how you always up the ante of craziness.

FoxNews is about the only mainstream right leaning news agency.
The rest of those that lean right aren't the MSM.

I agree, but in general journalism isn't exclusive to the major networks.
 
How can the majority of the media be one way or another unless that's what the market wants?
 

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