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The confidence of U.S. citizens in American newspaper and television news has fallen to all-time lows, according to a survey conducted by Gallup.
Only 16 percent of respondents have “quite a lot” or “a great deal” of confidence in newspapers, according to the poll. When it comes to television news, this number falls to 11 percent. Of the 16 American institutions measured in the confidence survey, newspapers and television news ranked in the second-to-last spot, with Congress in the last position.
It was not always so dismal. Back in 1979, for example, newspapers garnered their highest level of confidence, at 51 percent. The second-highest reading was at 39 percent, scored in 1973 and 1990. The percentage of Americans who have no or “very little” confidence in newspapers was a record-high 46 percent in the recent poll.
Republicans had the lowest confidence in newspapers, at just 5 percent, followed by independents at 12 percent. In contrast, 35 percent of Democrats expressed confidence in newspaper news. Democrat confidence had hit a peak range of 42–46 percent during the Trump administration, but has fallen since President Joe Biden took office.
Recovering Media Trust
According to Joe Concha, contributor and media analyst at Fox News, there is now a considerable gray area between partisan opinion and actual news. He believes media outlets can improve viewer confidence by resolving this issue.
“They can improve the situation by not injecting so much opinion into what should be straight reporting. And also by not automatically and blatantly taking a side on big issues such as the abortion ruling, or serving at the pleasure of one major political party like we saw by calling Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill,” Concha said to Fox News.
A survey from Pew Research Center revealed that journalists and the general public differ markedly with regard to their views on “both-sides-ism,” which refers to whether journalists must always look to give equal coverage to all sides of an issue.
While 55 percent of journalists in the survey insisted that every side does not always deserve equal coverage in the news, 76 percent of Americans wanted the news to cover all sides equally.
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“There has been talk about this for quite a few years, but the data from various surveys did not support this until recent years. Readers are tired of news media with strong political bias in their articles and want unbiased reporting without coloring or exaggeration”, according to Ken, a director at The Epoch Times, America’s fastest-growing independent news media. He continues,
“In the past, journalists were seen as honorable truth-seekers who held those in power accountable. Today, however, some people feel that the media has become a tool for the powerful to control the narrative and mislead the public. This is a serious threat to freedom and democracy. The Epoch Times is a new independent news media you can trust. We say that we put the word journalism back to journalism.”
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