[The_Victor]

% Great Deal/Fair Amount of Trust in News Media
	2003	2004	Change
	%	%	%
Republicans	44	31	-13
Independents	53	44	-9
Democrats	66	59	-7

At the beginning of this election cycle, I had two wishes;

1) Re-election of GWB
2) Repudiation of the mainstream media (via the election).

I guess Christmas came early this year (at least on wish 2).

[Maceman]

CBS News' faulty reporting

EuphemismsRus

[Cicero]

If 44% have confidence in the media, that must include a fair number of leftists who KNOW the media is dishonest but also know that it is dishonest in their direction. Maybe such people add up to 33%. So it's hard to see how the numbers could drop much lower.

[dirtboy]

Conversely, 39% currently say they have "not very much" confidence in the media's accuracy and fairness, while 16% say they have "none at all."

39+16=55 percent don't believe what the Old Media is telling them.

A watershed moment. And that's why the Old Media (and, consequently, the Dems) are reacting to us, instead of a few years ago when we reacted to them. And, what's even better - THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT YET. So they're stuck insisting that the TANG story has to be true, attempting to fend off one damning fact after the other, instead of being able to take the initiative.

So, in the end, they are having to respond to our facts with their lies - instead of eight years ago, when we had to respond to their lies with our facts. Puts us in the front of the news cycle.

[Fintan]

 

The 44%.

 

[woodb01]

It's called FOX News. It's called people also starting to make better use of the Internet and the Internet content itself being more accessible and easier to use.

[M-cubed]

Live by the lie......Die by the lie!....CBS is a cancer growing on the MSM....

[The South Texan]

"The poll found that 48% of Americans view the news media as "too liberal", while 15% viewed it as "too conservative" and another 33% perceived the media as "just about right." Clearly, one would expect to find ideological differences on this question. Nearly three out of four conservatives (74%) say the media are too liberal, 6% too conservative, and 19% just about right. However, liberals may look at the large corporations that own many major media organizations and see a much different picture: just 11% say the media are too liberal, 37% say too conservative, and 49% say just about right."

The 6% of conservatives that think the MSM is too liberal need to have their heads examined,

[NRA1995]

"Clearly, something new has happened to shake public confidence in the media, but whether that 'something' is the recent CBS News controversy is a matter of speculation."

Public confidence has been eroding for years, as anyone who doesn't have his head buried in the sand could plainly see.

[jcb8199]

Wish #1 is looking better by the day, too...

[BillF]

Here's some good news about the media.

[1Old Pro]

At the beginning of this election cycle, I had two wishes; 1) Re-election of GWB 2) Repudiation of the mainstream media (via the election).

Two very good things to wish for. I share the same hopes. It's looking more and more like not only will they come true, but come true big time.

[TheGeezer]

those with lower levels of education and income are more likely to have confidence in the media's accuracy and fairness than those with more education and higher incomes

Liberofascist exploitation of the most vulnerable portions of the citizenry continues...dumb down the educational system so people cannot discern agitprop from fact...

Dan rather, the ultimate news gigolo, and CBS News, the ultimate liberofascist agitprop organization...stand exposed and wounded, at last.

[VadeRetro]

Media Credibility Reaches Lowest Point in Three Decades

Just in time for the election, too! It's not a coincidence. CBS in particular was caught writing checks on its credibility that it can't cash. That makes it easier for even the gullible among us to see the fudging the big media do routinely.

[BillF]

During a July 10, 2004 edition of the TV talking head show Inside Washington, Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, disccussed the bases of support of Kerry by saying the following, quoted in the official transcript of the show (click here):

MR. THOMAS: There's one other base here, the media. Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points. [emphasis added]

[GOPJ]

The MSM says they're not married to Democrats - but CBS is in bed with them... The word "whore" comes to mind. Credibility? They gotta be kidding.

[Tacis]

"Media Credibility Reaches Lowest Point in Three Decades"

NOT FOR ME, IT HASN'T!! The ultra-left wing, anti-American, blame America first, media in this country has always been at sub-sewer levels.

The media here was seized by the communists in the 30's and they've owned ever since. Sure, the Soviet communists no longer exist but the have been replaced by the neocommunists, those who still hate capitalism and want to destroy the U.S.

The journalism schools (why aren't there prostitution schools? - it is a much more useful trade than "journalism") continue to fuel the anti-Americanism.

Sure, the owners are capitalists. But, in allowing leftist to become "personalities" they shift labor costs to others.

If it weren't for talk radio, Drudge and sites like this, Rather would have easily gotten away with it again. The non-cable news, the old-timey media, is dead and will wither. The left wing media does not now nor never did have ANT credibility!!

[Colofornian]

Clearly, something new has happened to shake public confidence in the media, but whether that "something" is the recent CBS News controversy is a matter of speculation.

Alright. Gallup, you tempted me. I'll speculate. It was DanScam.

...but whether that "something" is the recent CBS News controversy..."

Allow me to dedicate the next song to the Dems, who are half-quoting the Beatles as they longingly sing:

Beatles: "Something in the way Dan moves; Distracts me like no other DNC cover; Something in the way he woos Kerry; I don't want Dan to leave now; You know I believe him now;

"Somewhere in his file he knows; That we need more Mapes doc makeovers; Something in his style that shows me; Don't want to leave Dan now; You know I believe him now;

"You’re asking me will my denial grow? I don’t know, I don’t know You stick around DU & it will show I don’t know, I don’t know

"Something in the way Dan knows And all he has to do is visualize Something in the things he shows me Don’t want to leave him now You know I believe him now

[pepperdog]

Good Grief! 59% of the Dims still believe the MSM, it is horrifying. I hate that a large percentage of our citizens are lied to on a daily basis and evidently have not a clue.

[Colofornian]

One might assume that if the CBS News story were the culprit, that this would be reflected in a disproportionately large drop in confidence in the media among Republicans...It did drop by a somewhat greater degree among Republicans than Democrats...

It wasn't so much a drop, as a trust shift. Informally dressed news hounds (the anti-tie, pajama-clad agenda jammers) tend to trump the agenda-ridden, corporate suits.

However, the data on this is not conclusive. Trust in the news media is typically lower among Republicans, but all three partisan groups show a significant decline in confidence in the media since last year.

Well, if you were an avid Rather news fan as an independent or liberal, your confidence would drop, too.

[KC_Conspirator]

1) Re-election of GWB
2) Repudiation of the mainstream media (via the election).

I feel the same way this year. I also felt the same way in 2000. However, in 2004 Kerry is surely the media pick.

They met in Al Franken's apartment 2 weeks before the Iowa caucuses to come up with the "I am electable" slogan for Kerry that saved his campaign. They used Abu Gharaib to attack Bush. The media put out scores of anti-Bush books. You have the Gang of 500. Polls show 90% of the media supports Kerry. They ignored the Swift Boat Vets and then impugned them when their ads were successful.

Then they came with the biggest hoax story in 20 years - during time of war in order to influence an election, mind you. Using forged documents to smear the president. I hate them all.