Americans’ confidence in the news media has tumbled to fresh lows — and it doesn’t much matter whether the source is newspapers, television or the Internet.<\/p>\n
A Gallup poll released Thursday found the level of faith in each of three major news media platforms — television news, newspapers, and news on the Internet — is at or tied with record lows, extending a longstanding trend<\/p>\n
Confidence in US newspapers was marginally better than rival media, but dropped to 22 percent in the June 5-8 survey — declining more than half from a 1979 peak of 51 percent.<\/p>\n
For television news, the percentage of respondents with a good deal of confidence was 19 percent, extending the decline from its 1993 peak at 46 percent.<\/p>\n
Just 18 percent said they trusted online news, which compares with 21 percent in the only prior Gallup survey in 1999.<\/p>\n
Those identifying themselves as liberals had slightly more confidence in newspapers, while conservatives had a higher level of trust in TV news.<\/p>\n
“The field of news media has changed dramatically since Gallup first began measuring the confidence the public held in newspapers or TV news decades ago,” Gallup’s Andrew Dugan said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
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