PEW Research Center Study Says Americans No Longer Trust the Media – Now Tell Us Something We Didn’t Already Know
Gee, I wonder if the media distrust comes from the thorough non-vetting/cheerleading of candidate Obama coupled with the media driven Inquisition of Sarah Palin?
Or could it be tied to the non-coverage of a radical 9/11 truther in the White House?
Or could it be the non-coverage of a triple pronged underage prostitution scandal at ACORN?
Maybe it’s the media driven demonizing of Tea Parties or the ongoing accusations of racism for ANYONE who disagrees with Obama?
Or is it that the media is deliberately downplaying the size of the 9/12 march in Washington, DC?
Whatever the reason, PEW has revealed something many Americans already knew. We no longer trust the media:
“The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.”
“Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.”
