Low Media Trust In The United States - Democratic Underground

struggle4progress

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Wed Jan-19-05 08:32 PM
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Low Media Trust In The United States

<snip> Polling Data

I would like to ask you about how much trust you have in certain institutions. For each of the following institutions, please tell me if you tend to trust it or tend not to trust it.

Tend to trust / Tend not to trust

The press 22% / 62%

Television 22% / 58%

Radio 43% / 33%

Source: Harris Interactive
Methodology: Online interviews to 2,092 American adults, conducted from Dec. 8 to Dec. 15, 2004. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

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ailsagirl

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Wed Jan-19-05 08:35 PM
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1. Maybe the penny has dropped-- it's about time

God, people can be slow to catch on to things...

But I find that encouraging. I hope, eventually, people will seek their news via Internet because TV is the WORST place to get news.

Newspapers aren't quite as bad as TV.

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AuntiBush

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Wed Jan-19-05 08:43 PM
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2. Agree!

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Elidor

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Wed Jan-19-05 08:43 PM
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3. A fair number of people don't trust it because of alleged liberal bias

Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 08:44 PM by Hardhead

I always get comments on my FAIR t-shirt ("Don't trust the corporate media") and some have agreed with the message–then gone on to complain about the SCLM.

I don't believe for a minute that Americans are wising up at last.

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Jon8503

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Wed Jan-19-05 08:44 PM
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4. All out of country media has commented on how the US press

and media never did question the war or hardly anything this administration has done and as such, has as much responsibility as anyone for what has happened.

The US Media are nothing but corporate puppets.

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PROGRESSIVE1

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Thu Jan-20-05 06:04 PM
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5. The U.S. media, especially the televised ones....

are blatently right wing.

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propagandafreegal

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Mon Jan-24-05 12:08 AM
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6. After the elections so many people I know just stopped watching news ro

I have stopped. I get my news online.

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