‘Trust In Media Hits Bottom’ – IOTW Report

‘Trust In Media Hits Bottom’

WaEx: Confidence in the media has hit rock bottom, with many news consumers believing that reporters file their reports before knowing the facts and 60 percent are under the impression that sources pay for stories, according to a depressing new survey of American journalism.

The Columbia Journalism Review poll also confirmed the pending death of print newspapers and magazines and a remarkable shift to social and online media as sources of news.

The survey, done in partnership with Reuters/Ipsos, interviewed 4,214 adults and found that the media is last on a list of all of Washington’s institutions that the public has confidence in, even under Congress.

CJR did not write up a report or analysis beyond an introduction on the “trust gap” it found. They wrote, “For decades, we’ve known that Americans don’t trust the press. What we haven’t known is how people view the makings of journalism, from the use of fact checkers and anonymous sources to the question of whether money skews journalistic decision-making. This new national poll for CJR answers those questions, and points to how big the trust gap remains.”

Instead of words, it showed the grim news in graphics.

 

13 Comments on ‘Trust In Media Hits Bottom’

  1. My trust in media is at an all time high. I trust them to repeat (verbatim) the democrats daily talking points and to carry their water, disparage the president at every opportunity, and ignore stories that illustrate how feckless the leftists actually are.

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  2. It’s 6:10, my televisions off, and I’m perusing my trusted sources for news. Should say something. Plus it saves my television from having things thrown at it.

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  3. It would be nice if the major news outlets would acknowledge their sins, issue a mea culpa and launch a renaissance of honesty and just report straight up news. It won’t happen but it would be nice.

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  4. “Plus it saves my television from having things thrown at it.”

    …that’s a GOOD thing, @ Different Tim, because a modern televisions can’t take a hit NEARLY as well as an old tube type,

    …and isn’t nearly as exciting when you DO manage to break the screen, either…

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  5. The msm cannot be trusted at all
    because it is OWNED by
    George Soros

    Just like the USA smellocrat party

    Remember April 2008
    When Gyorgy Schwantz put his money on
    Barak Hussein Obama ?

    And all of a sudden
    ” INEVITABLE ” Hillary Clinton
    became an
    ” Also Ran ” ?

    Even the power drunk craving Clintons
    accepted it !

    George Soros OWNS the
    smellocrat party
    What he says goes !

    AOC better watch her big mouth

    If she crosses Gyorgy Schwantz,

    She may disappear.

    And, of course, the smellocrats
    will try to blame
    President Trump or any
    non-leftist extremist in general .

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