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In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity
« on: August 14, 2010, 06:42:53 AM »
Kinda telling, isn't it?  Especially after they didn't do their job and allowed Teh Obamessiah to be foisted on us.

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In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity

No more than 25% say they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in either

by Lymari Morales
August 13, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news--with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in either.  These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007.

The findings are from Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions survey, which found the military faring best and Congress faring worst of 16 institutions tested.  Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news is on par with Americans' lackluster confidence in banks and slightly better than their dismal rating of Health Management Organizations and big business.

The decline in trust since 2003 is also evident in a 2009 Gallup poll that asked about confidence and trust in the "mass media" more broadly.  While perceptions of media bias present a viable hypothesis, Americans have not over the same period grown any more likely to say the news media are too conservative or too liberal.

I'm going to cut this one off here.  There's only three more paragraphs to the story.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/142133/Confidence-Newspapers-News-Remains-Rarity.aspx
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Re: In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2010, 07:08:48 AM »
If this "news item" were published in a newspaper or mentioned on the All Barack Channel, nobody would pay attention or believe it. Now that it's posted on the web, maybe there's a ghost of a chance.

Most people still think that the Gallup organization is a worthy institution. They forget that it's a business.
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