Posted on 09/14/2009 12:50:07 AM PDT by Saije
The news media's credibility is sagging along with its revenue.
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. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of the media was first done.
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. The survey polled 1,506 adults on the phone in late July.
The survey found that 63 percent of the respondents thought the information they get from the media was often off base. In Pew Research's previous survey, in 2007, 53 percent of the people expressed that doubt about accuracy.
The findings indicate U.S. newspapers and broadcasters could be alienating the audiences they are struggling to keep as they try to survive financial turmoil. Pew Research didn't attempt to gauge how shrinking newspapers, reduced staffs and other cutbacks at news organizations are affecting people's perceptions, although the reductions probably haven't helped, said Michael Dimock, an associate director for the center.****
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.
But he still believes many media outlets still go to great lengths to get the facts right and own up to their mistakes when the information is wrong.
"The great flood that goes under the heading `news media' has been poisoned by junk blogs, gossip sheets, shout radio and cable-TV partisans that don't deserve to be trusted," Keller told The Associated Press in an e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Great news. The media-industrial complex is in freefall collapse, something I have hoped for, and predicted, for many years. The election of Obama was their last gasp to stave off well-deserved extinction. It will fail, has failed, and their fifty year reign of cultural terror is almost over.
It’s truth growing in new fields. More than enough BS to fertilize it too.
Chortle!
Is this guy ***ing serious?
In what world is he living on? George Orwell's 1984?
Anyone can see that the biggest partisans on the planet and least deserving of being trusted by the public are none other then the New York Times themselves, apart from the 0bama partisans who work for the New York times of course.
I am gonna bet that id this survey had differentiated between Talk Radio and the rest of the MSM, the poll would easily have shown Talk radio with a heck of a lot more credibility than the MSM outlets like the New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC et al.
Yup.
When the history of the MSM is finally written, the part they played in the election of and propping up of 0bama, will go down as the last straw that broke the Camel’s back.
Unbelievable. They really don't get it.
Since he took office, it has been all communist propaganda, all the time.
I feel like an underground Polish Resistance Fighter during WWII as I listen to secret radio transmissions, and gather information on the net.
...and all of this while fearing/defying the behavior of a totalitarian group of COMMUNIST idiots in office.
Our COMMUNIST media is pathetic!
On the bright side, good chance for “news media credibility” to take over “jumbo shrimp” as the #1 cited oxymoron.
Kind of reminds me of that COMMUNIST @sshole over the loudspeakers in the prison camp in the film, "Red Dawn."
"America is a whorehouse, whose capitalist founders were all dogs and bastards. Blah, blah, blah."
And that's w/o Dan Rather!
LMAO!!!
No, we should trust Dan Rather and Jayson Blair.
I maintain that Pew threw this little nugget into their blurb AFTER the results came back.
He's out of the office.
Sure they do. The lies go on the front page, and the retractions go on page 43.
They are Communists. They have done nothing in my memory to report anything good about America. All they do is run down us and the country and promote racism and division. Out with them.
So I guess the concept “Fake But Accurate” failed to catch on the way the MSM hoped it would.
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