As a result of it’s latest survey, Pew Research concludes that Americans don’t trust the press. Not exactly a man bites dog story.
Here’s how Pew reports it:
The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.
Similarly, only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60% who say news organizations are politically biased. And the percentages saying that news organizations are independent of powerful people and organizations (20%) or are willing to admit their mistakes (21%) now also match all-time lows.
Where’s Dan Rather when we need him?
Source: Pew Research Center
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Today a young man knocked on my door offering a free copy of the local big metro area newspaper. I wasn’t interested — not even for free.
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I don’t know anyone that trusts the press… but many keep watching and reading… they seem to be like people trying to break an addiction… but they just can’t!
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Duly tweeted.
I’m barely on the web right now, and this site is one of the few I’m trying to check.
The lamestream media are useless.
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MSM will die of self inflicted wounds.