Posted on 09/14/2009 7:29:17 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
A brand new Pew Research study shows that America's belief in the media is at its lowest since the company started collecting this data in 1985. Only 29% of Americans say that news organizations get the facts correct, while 63% say that news stories are often bogus. New fairness numbers wer actually beginning to rise in the early part of this decade, but since the beginning of the most recent campaign, confidence in the media has plummeted.
The major belief of the public is that media coverage is politically biased:
.....only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60% who say news organizations are politically biased. And the percentages saying that news organizations are independent of powerful people and organizations (20%) or are willing to admit their mistakes (21%) now also match all-time lows.
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Almost as low as congress
I wish I could convince my mother who STILL insists the news (CNN, NBC, ABC, etc.) is not biased! ARRGHH!
Have you noticed that they are lying about his approval numbers going back up just before they have to work on the HealthCare Reform plan and vote on it ? .... Coincidence ?
Only 29% of Americans say that news organizations get the facts correct,
Um, it did go up a few points, according to Rasmussen.
I’m actually surprised the numbers that trust the news media are that high.
Oh, I trust, I trust that the presstitutes lie everytime they open their pretty little mouths.
does it surprise any of us.
The so called media have been a disgrace in the last two years.
They never did any investigative journalism about bozo.
They fail to report many of the issues concerning the Dems , czars and bozo.
They twist what they do report .
Even this weekend I met a couple who had never heard of ACORN.
For crying out loud they take our money , do corruption with it and then get away with it and the so called media do not think it should be reported.
Look at the czars. they have some right loons there and the so called media fail to report it and if someone like Beck does report it they then cover him and call him names.
Bozo runs away to MN to get away from the massive demo and the so called media talk about 15 grand instead of reporting how he ran away from one of the biggest demo’s DC has ever seen not forgetting the thousands around the country who also protested.
Watch the white house press corp and anyone tell me that they are doing their job minus Garrett.
Even that Mike Emmanual(sp) from FOX is up bozo’s arse
They are a joke of the highest proportions and look forward to telling them how they are a disgrace one day.
The GOP should be calling them out at every chance every day on live TV but they do not .
Why not say to NBC etc”why do you fail to report to your viewers about ACORN and their corruption or why do you not cover the tea parties like in DC in much more detail?’
Is that so hard for them?
The so called media are like kids who will keep doing this until they are called out in public to their viewers.
Why not say to them “hey many know that you are very biased towards obama and yoiu do not report the actual facts “
I had a couple over the other day who had not heard about ACORN and had not heard about how bozo wanted kids to write a letter asking them to help him.
My wife and I kept saying this and all they could do is say “well we haven’t heard about it” or’ if it is true why didn’t the evening news report it”
I actually feel sorry for those who think the media do their job or those idiots who drive around with their bozo stickers.
Every time I get to ask them a question about bozo they have no answer.
One idiot the other day had a green sticker and a bozo sticker on his car.
When I called them out about the green crap etc they kept saying the old left line.
Their car BTW was a ford excursion.
they were just too thick to see the hypocrisy
if it is true why didn’t the evening news report it”
There are a lot of hopeless people. You might as well beat your head against a brick wall. It will be just as effective.
The so called media have been a disgrace in the last two years.
Try the last 6 years, 10 years.
Wow. The media rates that high?? Seriously, O is going to find out (as both Mao and Hitler did) that there is a price to be paid for state-run media, namely you stop getting accurate information. And, at some point that catches up to you. The drive-bys think they are hurting us by fraudulent reporting, but they are aslo seriously damaging Obama by lying to him.
The so called media have been a disgrace in the last two years
We laughed it off back in the late 1940s when every one was talking about how the communists was planing on taking over america without firing a shot, they were at that time trying to get as many of thier people in our news media and in our goverment institutions as possible.
We supposedly defeated communisim, but the socialist which is the father of communism is at work harder than ever and even more bolder and out in the open.
And the people who voted in a president that has known friends and tutors who are known as communists is proof that thier plan is working.
I am by nature an optimist but I think it is all but over for America, the land of the Free.
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” - Thomas Jefferson
The leftist media waged a full scale WAR on those crazy Birchers starting back in the late 50s. Thanks to that campaign, the JBS was made a radioactive laughing stock among the quiche-eating chattering classes. Some Americans NOT in the chattering classes also laughed at those silly old Birchers. Now that the socialists about whom those nutty Birchers were warning us have invaded Washington, most of them have STOPPED LAUGHING.
Oh, and have you also noticed that this same media that hammered those goofy, tinfoil hat wearing Birchers back then are now fully OUT OF THEIR LITTLE CLOSETS and IN FULL CRY FOR SOCIALISM HERE?
Gee, LOOKS LIKE THE BIRCHERS WERE RIGHT!
FREEDOM STILL HAS AN ADDRESS:
It’s http://www.jbs.org
as a former ad guy, I agree
You’re right. Between the government and the MSM, which do you trust less is a tough question. How do you compare zero to zero? I guess they’re both simply equally bad. I have absolutely no trust in either institution to tell the truth or to do what is best for the Country. I believe both are out to satisfy their own agendas, and those are in fact harmful to this Country.
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