WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993.
The findings are from Gallup’s annual update on confidence in U.S. institutions, conducted June 7-10 this year. As such, the findings preceded the erroneous initial reports by cable-news networks CNN and Fox News regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 decision about the constitutionality of the U.S. healthcare law.
Among 16 U.S. institutions tested, television news ranks 11th, following newspapers in 10th place. The 25% of adults who express a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers is down slightly from 28% last year. Confidence in newspapers is now half of what it was at its peak of 51% in 1979.
Read More at Gallup. By Lyman Morales.
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Personally I have ZERO confidence in the mainstream media to report acuratly or completely.
I guess the CNN episode on Romney’s offshore accounts was not received very well.
Every time anyone asks/demands a disclosure from Romney it automatically reminds most voters that Obama has refused to disclose anything for 4 years and is still a mistery.
The voters are waking up!
Internet news services, such as this one, are more reliable and more accurate. The bubbleheads just don’t seem to be able to connect. …”And coming up next on this news channel – the murder and dismemberment of 3,000 children”. Delivered with a big smile. And they thank the weather man or woman for “good” weather, as though the reporter were responsible.
There is an experiment one might want to try: Do not watch any television for a month, then turn it on. You will be amazed at how much brighter you have become. Peace, Robert Walker