Wed Jul 11, 2012, 02:40 PM

Stuart G (7,659 posts)

Gallup Poll Finds Confidence in TV News at New Low

Last edited Wed Jul 11, 2012, 02:49 PM USA/ET - Edit history (3)

Source: Huffington Post

Confidence in television news has hit a new low, a new Gallup poll reported Tuesday.

The polling firm does an annual survey of the confidence that Americans have in their biggest institutions. Gallup noted that its survey took place before CNN and Fox News botched the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care law, presumably as a way to emphasize just how little faith people seem to have in their newscasts.

Just 21% of adults said they had a &quot;great deal&quot; or &quot;quite a lot&quot; of confidence in TV news. That's down a whopping 25% from 1993, when Gallup began the poll: chart not shown

The survey showed an interesting political split. Overall, Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to trust TV news (34 percent versus 17 percent.) But self-identified liberals were the most disenchanted of all groups, with just 19 percent expressing confidence in the medium

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/gallup-poll-confidence-tv-news_n_1664429.html

I wonder why???

another link at Talking Points Memo..for comparison of stories..

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/tv-news-confidence-low.php

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
Gallup Poll Finds Confidence in TV News at New Low (Original post)	Stuart G	Jul 2012	OP
I wish we could get HBO's the NewsRoom into every American adult's living room.	hlthe2b	Jul 2012	#1
No one could've possibly foreseen this erosion of the publics' trust in the corporate media!	Uncle Joe	Jul 2012	#2
I don't even watch TV.	Neoma	Jul 2012	#3
DUH! When two of the propaganda leaders can't even get a story right	liberal N proud	Jul 2012	#4
I stopped watching that crap in the early '90s. . .	Journeyman	Jul 2012	#5
for me it was shortly after 9/11, when their stories started to bear no relationship to reality	yurbud	Jul 2012	#8
What, we don't trust overpaid news readers dressed as candy stripers?	closeupready	Jul 2012	#6
Blitz on a screen makes me want to scream.	ChairmanAgnostic	Jul 2012	#7
I look forward to the day Washington and corporations try to sell us their latest hatful of shit	yurbud	Jul 2012	#9
This message was self-deleted by its author	OKNancy	Jul 2012	#10
I used to be a news junkie.	Steerpike	Jul 2012	#11
This message was self-deleted by its author	Tx4obama	Jul 2012	#12
Only PBS NewsHour, BBC World News, Rachel Maddow, and Democracy Now	alp227	Jul 2012	#13
I want to express my lack of confidence that 19% is lower than 17%	KurtNYC	Jul 2012	#14

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 02:42 PM

hlthe2b (47,257 posts)

1. I wish we could get HBO's the NewsRoom into every American adult's living room.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 02:49 PM

Uncle Joe (24,997 posts)

2. No one could've possibly foreseen this erosion of the publics' trust in the corporate media!

Thanks for the thread, Stuart G.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 02:52 PM

Neoma (8,979 posts)

3. I don't even watch TV.

The only interesting thing would probably be C-span.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 02:54 PM

liberal N proud (43,670 posts)

4. DUH! When two of the propaganda leaders can't even get a story right

And one of them continues to tell the falsehood for minutes after others learned they were wrong.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:00 PM

Journeyman (9,197 posts)

5. I stopped watching that crap in the early '90s. . .

Aside from viewing certain visual links (e.g., the tsunamis -- which can now be seen in shortened form on YouTube) can't imagine why anyone would subject themselves to such idiocy.

Turn it off. There are far better ways to inform yourself, methods which don't rot your mind or ulcerate your innards.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:25 PM

yurbud (31,396 posts)

8. for me it was shortly after 9/11, when their stories started to bear no relationship to reality

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:20 PM

closeupready (19,440 posts)

6. What, we don't trust overpaid news readers dressed as candy stripers?

What are we - heathens? Luddites?

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:23 PM

ChairmanAgnostic (23,983 posts)

7. Blitz on a screen makes me want to scream.

Even more than Billous.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:27 PM

yurbud (31,396 posts)

9. I look forward to the day Washington and corporations try to sell us their latest hatful of shit

through TV news, and it not only doesn't work, it makes people believe or at least suspect the opposite.

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Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:32 PM

Steerpike (2,162 posts)

11. I used to be a news junkie.

I never watch any of it anymore. It's all smoke and mirrors. I don't miss it one bit.

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Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:44 PM

alp227 (20,417 posts)

13. Only PBS NewsHour, BBC World News, Rachel Maddow, and Democracy Now

I would watch for TV news.

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Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:06 PM

KurtNYC (12,055 posts)

14. I want to express my lack of confidence that 19% is lower than 17%

Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:08 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Republicans = 17 percent versus "But self-identified liberals were the most disenchanted of all groups, with just 19 percent expressing confidence in the medium"

edit: correction of Tarzan grammar (Tarzan grammar bad).

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