WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. Distrust is up from the past few years, when Americans were already more negative about the media than they had been in years prior to 2004.
The record distrust in the media, based on a survey conducted Sept. 6-9, 2012, also means that negativity toward the media is at an all-time high for a presidential election year. This reflects the continuation of a pattern in which negativity increases every election year compared with the year prior. The current gap between negative and positive views — 20 percentage points — is by far the highest Gallup has recorded since it began regularly asking the question in the 1990s. Trust in the media was much higher, and more positive than negative, in the years prior to 2004 — as high as 72% when Gallup asked this question three times in the 1970s.
This year’s decline in media trust is driven by independents and Republicans. The 31% and 26%, respectively, who express a great deal or fair amount of trust are record lows and are down significantly from last year. Republicans’ level of trust this year is similar to what they expressed in the fall of 2008, implying that they are especially critical of election coverage.
Independents are sharply more negative compared with 2008, suggesting the group that is most closely divided between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney is quite dissatisfied with its ability to get fair and accurate news coverage of this election.
More broadly, Republicans continue to express the least trust in the media, while Democrats express the most. Independents’ trust fell below the majority level in 2004 and has continued to steadily decline.
Read More at gallup.com. By Lymari Morales.
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Does anyone think they care?? They are ALL allergic to Truth, Facts, Proof and Evidence!!!!
The control of Obama's ineligibility issue in the MSM and RINO Radio is proof-positive that there is CIA infiltration controlling the propaganda. Ofcourse, two former CIA Directors, William Colby and William Casey as far back as 1976 and 1981 were making statements referencing the CIA's control of the disinformation (propaganda) campaign in the US media. There is likely also Mossad/B'nai Brith infiltration controlling the American MSM with the Jewish Mafia controlling much of our MSM now just as they did on 9/11 when the networks ran the fake graphics of the planes hitting the Towers. When Ted Turner sold CNN to the Jewish Mafia, the stage was set for the 911 psy-op false-flag on the major networks. The CIA has by now almost certainly has infiltrated both major political parties at key positions of influence, as witnessed by the GOP's decision to go mum on the overwhelming evidence against Obama's qualification to be President.
For those of you still starry-eyed over Israel and drinking the Neocon/Establishment/MSM Kool-Aid, get a clue…
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The word coming out of Russia is that Pravda and Izvestia never had the degree of propaganda control over the masses like the American MSM and RINO Radio have today. I would venture a guess that it is because the American people are so much more ignorant than the Russian people. I do not believe the Russian people would so easily accept the 9/11 government lie if it had been tried over there. Most of them understand fire has never taken down a steel skyscraper in the history of mankind because it is physically impossible.