Gallup:Public Confidence in News Media Falls to New Low

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Of course this isn't be reported by MSM but it is very heartening. People are waking up.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000954852

Gallup: Public Confidence in News Media Falls to New Low

By E&P Staff

Published: June 10, 2005 11:00 AM ET

NEW YORK Public trust in newspapers and television news continued to decline in Gallup's annual survey of "public confidence in major institutions" in the United States, reaching an all-time low this year.

Those having a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers dipped from 30% to 28% in one year, the same total for television. The previous low for newspapers was 29% in 1994. Since 2000, confidence in newspapers has declined from 37% to 28%, and TV from 36% to 28%, according to the poll.

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[whistle]

1. I'm surprised that public confidence is as high as the poll suggests

[indepat]

7. Freepers must love what the MSM dish up

[wakeme2008]

2. It's all the fault of the Liberal Media and Newsweek

:sarcasm:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. A Liberal media, if it exists, exists only in a parallel Universe.....

[Junkdrawer]

4. Liberal Media is New Speak for...

"All your media is belonging to us."

[C_U_L8R]

5. If journalists want our trust...

then they're gonna have to do a much better job and a whole lot of house cleaning. Many journalists have gotten lazy to the point where they are mostly rehashing political talking points and news wire items. This does not seem like journalism to me... on tv we have "news readers" and politically-aligned commentators (that's putting it nicely). I'm not even sure what the print equivalent's called. Lazy reporters / corrupt management / really bad combo. The worst thing is that the whole news business seems to have been hijacked by the corporatists and the propogandists. And that's a shame on every person who calls him/herself a journalist.

So, Enough's enough. Right? Let's see some true investigative work with guts and insight. Let's see some folks smart enough to challenge "the facts" and stand up for the truth. There's too many crooks getting a free pass in the press. Spin and misdirection is often painted as "fairness and balance". Journalists gotta start policing their own... while there's still anything left to save. Bad reporting and reporters needs to be called out. Corrupt organizations like Fox News need to be exposed ... and then condemned.

C'mon ! It's not hard to do. It's clearly evident when these folks are lying or manipulating. Shine a light on em. Expose the lies. Expose the methods. And clean your house up. Please.

[magellan]

6. I don't watch/read any of the corporate news anymore unless I want a laugh

And a bitter laugh it is, to tune in to CNN once within four days and find they're STILL covering the missing girl in Aruba as their top story. I feel sorry for her and her family, but DA-YUM -- that's THE most important thing going on in the world?? I don't appreciate being treated like an ignorant FREEPER by the US Corporate News.

When I want to know what's REALLY going on I watch Democracy Now!, read the foreign press, and make regular visits to LBN (without which I would surely expire for lack of information and insight!).

[BiggJawn]

8. Me neither.

I wonder who has the home video of Sweet Pretty White Girl downing 30 Jello-shot drinks on the night she disappeared...

Oh, BTW, we've now lost over 1700 troops in that Quagmire, but you didn't hear THAT on the MSM...