Chicago Tribune: Trust in the news media is being eroded by perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans' skepticism about what they read on social media.
Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well below the public's view of other institutions. In this presidential campaign year, Democrats were more likely to trust the news media than Republicans or independents.
But trust today also goes beyond the traditional journalistic principles of accuracy, balance and fairness.
Faced with ever-increasing sources of information, Americans also are more likely to rely on news that is up-to-date, concise and cites expert sources or documents, according to a study by the Media Insight Project, a partnership of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
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Update: Poll: Getting facts right key to Americans' trust in media (AP)
WNU editor: Only 6% say they have a lot of confidence in the media ..... 6% .... I say that number is too high.
3 comments:
Judith Miller
More frightening to me is the reliance on "Social Media" as an "Information" source; it continually astounds me what ordanary people are willing to believe and then regurgitate as fact or truth.
I'm constantly dealing with garbage like Zeitgeist,tales of the Illuminati, Reptillians etc. at work, social gatherings or from my kids' friends (my kids know better). It's little wonder that the people in control get away with so much $#/^ when so many folks are running around believing in Death Panels or Nazis on the datk side of the moon.
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