Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
It's a mystery why this downward trend continues. I chalk it up to selective editing in the interest of "time constraints."
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The numbers are disproportionately a you problem. The ratio of media distrust has been about 2-to-1 for Republicans vs independents, and more than 4-to-1 for Republicans vs Democrats.
Conservatives are especially enamored of resentment, and conspiracy as they choose to define it. "Among Republicans who say their main political news source is Fox News, those who say the cable network is not mainstream are far more likely to have a great deal of trust in it than those who say it is mainstream (55% vs. 32%)."
Never see you applying the same self-validating schadenfreude to the downward reputation of the Supreme Court.
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