US confidence in media hits fresh low: Gallup

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Washington (AFP) - Americans' trust in the media has sunk to a new low, and a bitter presidential race may be to blame, a Gallup survey showed Wednesday.

The poll asking whether the media report the news "fully, accurately and fairly" found just 32 percent of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust, the lowest level in Gallup polling history and eight percentage points below last year. Gallup began asking the question in 1972, and has polled Americans on a yearly basis since 1997.

Trust and confidence in the media hit its highest point in 1976, at 72 percent following the investigative journalism coverage of the Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, according to the research group. But confidence has been below 50 percent since 2007.

"While it is clear Americans' trust in the media has been eroding over time, the election campaign may be the reason that it has fallen so sharply this year," Gallup said in its report.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-confidence-media-hits-fresh-low-gallup-204948188.html

[ffr]

1. Have you seen some of today's headlines! No wonder!

Between the idiots who don't want to believe the Drumpf scandals and the rest of us looking at unscientific polling data coming out, I can see why everyone doesn't trust the M$M. It's all about confusion, not performing journalism and deceiving.

CNN Gives Trump The Lead In Ohio By Polling No One Under 50 Years Old - Thx Skidmore
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2417532

[mountain grammy]

2. Hey Media!

You suck! Soon your approval will be as low as Congress!

Interesting this started in 1972, the year of the Powell memo. For a few years, reporters were still reporting, but we've watched it all come to an end. Now, we have Trump.

[turbinetree]

14. Couldn't agree more........................

living through that time and watching the media and what they were not doing then to now is amazing.
This "media" more than sucks, they put a narcissistic hypocrite in charge of a party and never challenged, him, and they keep beating around the bush and not holding the fire to the feet of the congressional leadership backing this racist bigot.

And now that the consolidation of the newspapers, tv broadcasting, and the public basically losing over site of there frequency rights of the broad band, and other frequencies being put up for sale to be used to pay debt is just amazing, and the Powell memo hits it right on the head on your comment. If people would look at what he said and why he said it, this country would be up in arms, it was a sell off of the country to the elite and to attack unions, everything of the commons etc.....

I know this is off the subject line, but my mother liked Will Rodgers and I like Will Rodgers, and this is what he said in his quotes and his reference to politics ........

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/05/will-rogers-politics-10-quotes-156762

[mountain grammy]

17. I also love Will Rodgers.. great quotes.

[olddad56]

3. who are these 32%?

I'm guessing viewers of the Faux Propaganda Channel. I think a lot of their viewers are that naive.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Seeing how openly they cover for Adolf Trump, this makes sense.

I don't trust the corporate media either.

[meow2u3]

5. I wonder why!?

Maybe if the media didn't cover up Benito Trump's serial criminal activity and persecute Hillary Clinton for nonexistent scandals, the American people would have more trust in the media as objective truthseekers instead of right-wing propaganda outlets.

[llmart]

6. Interesting this is on yahoo's site.....

Talk about awful "journalism".

[MowCowWhoHow III]

9. It's an AFP article, hosted on Yahoo (and no doubt other sites too)

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. But they will continue to do the same things

Because the corporate friendly message is far more important than ratings and confidence. And when nobody is watching anymore, it is still "mission accomplished" as long as certain stories are not being reported, why should CEOs care?

And I take no glee in the low confidence because probably half the people who say they don't trust the media believe that that it has a liberal bias.

[anamandujano]

11. I agree, They don't care.

However nice it is that the public hates them, you are right, it is mission accomplished.

There needs to be some serious media conglomerate busting soon. Freedom of speech is all well and good but not when it's a threat to our democracy. The coverage we are getting is like yelling fire in a crowded theater.

[n2doc]

8. If you polled DU I'll bet they would get about 0% positive

We see the crap every day.

[rurallib]

10. It is not the presidential race that is causing low ratings

rather it is the horrible coverage that has nothing to do with reality

[anamandujano]

12. Bingo!

[book_worm]

13. It should be much lower.

[UpInArms]

15. 1986 Robert Bork - The Fairness Doctrine

http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=military_analysts_tmln&military_analysts_tmln_general_events=military_analysts_tmln_fairness_doctrine

1986: Federal Court Rules Fairness Doctrine Not Needed

A federal appeals court agrees with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that the Fairness Doctrine, which mandates that broadcasters provide opportunities for different sides of controversial political and social issues (see 1949 and 1959), is no longer needed (see 1985). [Jamieson and Cappella, 2008, pp. 45] In the case Meredith Corp. v. FCC, the court rules 2-1—with Reagan administration appointees Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia overriding the third judge—that Congress had not actually made the Fairness Doctrine an actual law. Bork writes, “We do not believe that language adopted in 1959 made the Fairness Doctrine a binding statutory obligation” because the doctrine was imposed “under,” not “by,” the Communications Act of 1934. In Bork’s opinion, the 1959 amendment established that the FCC could apply the doctrine, but is not legally obliged to do so. Therefore, the FCC can retain or drop the rule as it likes. According to the Media Access Project, “The decision contravened 25 years of FCC holdings that the doctrine had been put into law in 1959.” [Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 2/12/2005; Museum of Broadcasting, 1/27/2008]

[world wide wally]

16. They couldn't care less.

They are the only game in town and we all play.

[mountain grammy]

18. Screw 'em.. I hope Trump locks them all up.

First they came for the fake journalists.. and we cheered.

OK, got that ugly moment off my chest, and I apologize. But, seriously, the fourth estate is MIA and the rotten sons of bitches got us here.

[BadGimp]

19. The campaign is not the reason.

The majority of the media is no longer committed to journalism.

[still_one]

20. absolutely, and it has been going on for some time now

[Midnight Writer]

21. Another meaningless poll. Just like the Congress approval rating so low, yet...

most think THEIR Congressman is alright. And Congressmen have a 95% chance of being re-elected.

The poll is not about measuring trust in the media. It is reflecting consumers who are not hearing what they WANT to hear, or are hearing things they DO NOT WANT to hear.

Even the harshest media critics, like talk radio hosts, base their programs about stories in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and other traditional "legacy" news sources.

[ronnie624]

22. "Trust and confidence in the media

hit its highest point in 1976, at 72 percent following the investigative journalism coverage of the Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, according to the research group. But confidence has been below 50 percent since 2007."

Excellent. People apparently know principled journalism when they see it, and understand intuitively at least, that the MSM establishment, is currently lying its sorry ass off.