It’s always reassuring to have your beliefs validated by the masses. So IHateTheMedia.com was pretty damn happy to see this Gallup poll which proves that 3 out of 4 Americans also hate the media.
Gallup has the devastating details:
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, from Gallup’s annual Confidence in Institutions survey, won’t warm the hearts of many media moguls.
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.
That, of course, brings up the obvious question, “What do Americans like?”
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual report on the State of the News Media, released in March, found for a third straight year, only digital and cable news sources growing in popularity, while network news, local news, and newspaper audiences shrink. These findings align with a similar 2008 Gallup poll that found cable and Internet news sources growing in popularity while all others held steady or declined.
We hate the media, too, except for IHateTheMedia.com. We love those guys.
Source: Gallup
