Gallup: Public Confidence in News Media Falls to New Low

From Editor and Publisher courtesy of BuzzFlash:

Public trust in newspapers and television news continued to decline in Gallup's annual survey of "public confidence in major institutions" in the United States, reaching an all-time low this year.

Those having a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers dipped from 30% to 28% in one year, the same total for television. The previous low for newspapers was 29% in 1994. Since 2000, confidence in newspapers has declined from 37% to 28%, and TV from 36% to 28%, according to the poll.

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May I just suggest that this might have something to do with how the mainstream news media so completely embraced Bush's lies about Iraq, and how his war is now a multi-trillion dollar debacle? Not to mention all those dead US soldiers (which just passed the 1700 mark, by the way) and dead Iraqi civilians. But what do I know? I'm no pollster.

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