Americans’ appraisal of the media is now “the grimmest in Gallup’s history,” the iconic polling company reported Thursday.
For the second straight year – and only the second year in Gallup’s half-century of surveying the subject – the percentage of Americans who have no confidence at all in the media has surpassed the combined percentages of those with either a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust.
In a national survey, conducted September 1-23 of this year, Gallup asked U.S. adults to rate their trust that media are reporting news “fully, accurately and fairly”:
“In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media — such as newspapers, TV and radio — when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly — a great deal, a fair amount, not very much or none at all?” ….
