Info wars.
Is
it any wonder when they lie for a living?!
They
say that people who watch Fox News are less informed than those who
don't watch the news.
Distrust
of media hits record high
There’s
something you should hear, but we’re willing to bet you might not
believe it. The results of a new Gallup poll reveal that Americans’
distrust with the media is more severe than ever.
RT,
21
Sepetmber
Gallup
released findings from one of their newest studies on Friday, and
through their research the polling group has determined that more
than half of Americans have little to no trust in the mainstream
media. According to the group’s findings, 60 percent of Americans
polled say they have “little or no trust in the mass media to
report the news fully, accurately and fairly.”
Pollsters
with Gallup have asked Americans about their take on the mass media
routinely since the 1990s, but analyzing the answers they’ve
received in the two decades or so since reveals that distrust is
indeed at a record high.
Back
in 1997 when Gallup first began regularly asking around, only 46
percent of the people polled said they had very little-to no trust in
the media, compared to 53 percent who favored it either a great deal
or a fair amount. Today, 40 percent say they trust their sources that
much, compared to 44 percent just one year earlier.
The
results of the Gallup study come close to mirroring statistic from a
similar poll conducted recently by Public Policy Polling for Daily
Kos and the SEIU. When they asked around one month ago if Americans
had a "favorable or unfavorable" view of the political
media, 78 percent of those polled said they were more than weary of
political journalists.
That
isn’t to say that Americans had a negative outlook on their news
sources before that though, either. Gallup adds that they polled
people for their take three different times during the 1970s, but
back then as many as 72 percent responded favorably about the
American media.
“Media
sources must clearly do more to earn the trust of Americans, the
majority of whom see the media as biased one way or the other. At the
same time, there is an opportunity for others outside the ‘mass
media’ to serve as information sources that Americans do trust,”
Gallup reports.
Gallup
conducted their latest survey between September 6 and 9, and sampled
1,017 random adults from the United States. There is a plus-or-minus
margin of error of 4 percent.
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