Poll: News media's credibility plunges to new low

Boston Globe ^ | 9/14/2009 | Michael Liedtke

[freebilly]

The budget squeeze "means facts don't get checked as carefully as they should," according to Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times.

How 'bout tryin' on this hat...? Most news reports today are so biased to the left that you're making Pravda look like the frickin' Wall Street Journal....

[magua]

Whats Mayor Mike going to do? Nothing

[altair]

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate

That's always been the case[1]. Maybe there's hope for us after all ...

[1] "frequently" >= 90%, but at least it's a start.

[wny]

A while back I emailed the news director of the local radio station here, WHAM 1180 (Rush at 2:00). I asked him why the morning drive-time “news” report consisted of, in-part, Letterman’s latest anti-Palin hissy fit and more drivel about Michael Jackson’s death (this was a week or so after the weirdo expired) but no real news from the world. The news hack writes back, disavows any knowledge of Letterman’s whining and regarding dead-MJ says “…besides, everyone’s talking about it so that makes it news…” I responded that if everyone’s talking about it, that makes it gossip. No response.

Emailed him again and asked why Mark Sanford’s affair and its political aftermath is worthy of mention here in WNY, but Charlie Rangel’s felonies aren’t. Not expecting a response.

[cbkaty]

[smedley64]

"...The poll didn't distinguish between Internet bloggers and reporters employed by newspapers and broadcasters, leaving the definition of "news media" up to each individual who was questioned..."

Stay in denial, idiots. When people are polled about the NEWS MEDIA, they aren't talking about bloggers and talk radio, but by all means, keep telling yourselves that's what they might be talking about if it makes you sleep better at night.

[cbkaty]

[raybbr]

... cable-TV partisans that don't deserve to be trusted,” Keller told The Associated Press in an e-mail”

Well, in the case of Olberman, Mathews and all the other losers on MSNBC he's right.

[RU88]

If media integrity were water we would be looking at the Sahara desert. They’ve sold their souls and every one knows it, even the left wing loons who continue to support the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost. They have lost touch with the common man and his concerns and have turned into elitist sounding boards for the latest pronouncements of our dear leader. All the while having the audacity to question why their profits are vanishing quicker than an April snow.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

Can attest to that personally.
On Saturday our local newspaper had a photo of myself and several friends holding a flag at a 9/11 ceremony in front of out local court house. It identified us as Sheriffs Deputies. None of us are. Nor were any of us wearing any type of uniform that would indicate that. Nowhere in the accompaning article did it identify us or what organization we were with.

[KeyLargo]

[SmokingJoe]

“Well, in the case of Olberman, Mathews and all the other losers on MSNBC he’s right. “

You are right of course.