Now if we could just get 57% of Americans to say, “I hate the media dot com,” life would be good. We’d have more hits than Drudge and more prestige than…well…we’d still be conservative so we wouldn’t have any prestige at all.
But that’s beside the point. Gallup.com has the details of the media-hating American people:
For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% now saying this is a record high by one percentage point.The 43% of Americans who, in Gallup’s annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, express a great deal or fair amount of trust ties the record low, and is far worse than three prior Gallup readings on this measure from the 1970s.
Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower than trust in the executive and judicial branches of government, even though trust in all three branches is down sharply this year. These findings also further confirm a separate Gallup poll that found little confidence in newspapers and television specifically.
Nearly half of Americans (48%) say the media are too liberal, tying the high end of the narrow 44% to 48% range recorded over the past decade. One-third say the media are just about right while 15% say they are too conservative.
15% say the media is too conservative? Probably pretty close to the percentage of Americans who are clinically insane.
Source: Gallup.com
