If you are reading it, you are probably telling yourself about how it is all “Fake news.” At least what is this Latest Gallop Poll Most of the ideas of Americans on media and their confidence on it are said.
Media, in its latest annual survey on the trust in Gallup found Only 28 percent of the American public expresses only “great deal” or “reasonable amount” of confidence in newspapers, television and radio to fully, accurately and fairly report. “
This represents a three -digit decline from last year’s survey, and the respondents told Gallop five years ago that 12 points are less.
On the other hand, the pole suggests that seven of the 10 American adults have no trust in the mass media, 34 percent said that they have “no one” to report the news fairly when asked about their trust in the press.
Although it is part of a decades-long-time tendency that has seen us continuously relying in the media on a large scale, the drop has become more pronounced in recent years. In fact, only 32 percent of adults said that they had at least the right amount of confidence in the press in 2016, the confidence in the media increased by 45 percent by 2018.
Since then, President Donald Trump and his colleagues have attached to the right -wing media universe. An aggressive and concrete campaign To Daminate the mainstream and heritage pressClosing to his return to the White House and A All-out attack on press freedom and freedomAt the same time, media groups have At once For the dangers and demands of Trump.
In recent months, the President has pushed for the disintegration of the state-funded media and lack of public broadcasting, resulting in the closure of PBS and NPR stations and the extinction of imminent extinction of Voice of America.
he also has Large settlement payment safe In response to the legally suspected cases, the owners of the news network, motivating the allegations of extortion and bribery and Spark check By Democratic MPs. The President has also asked for the talk show host, which have been important to remove and cancel them, publicly celebrate those media personalities. Lose your job Or are Suspended,
Therefore, Trump continuously instigated the “fake news” media that he feels that he does not “behave impartially,” it is hardly surprising that the Republican’s faith in the American press is below the basement.
Although his confidence in the media has not exceeded 21 percent since 2015, only eight percent of Republican now believes in the press – it has fallen into single digits for the first time in Gallop’s survey.
Galp said, “Independents Trust has not reached the majority level since 2003, and the latest 27% reading matches the previous year’s historic low,” for democrats, “for democrats, now (51%) now (51%) now express confidence in media, which is a repetition of the first seen in 2016.”
In contrast, when Galp first began measuring the confidence in the media in the 1970s, between 68 and 72 percent of the Americans said they were convinced in reporting news presses. The voting firm will wait for about twenty years before seeing the question again, only to find out that public confidence in the media fell to 53 percent in 1997.
Of course, by that time, the conservative talk radio industry – led by Rush Limbo – was Constantly pushing the mantra The mainstream and broadcasting media was biased to the liberals, which launched Fox News in 1996 by Ruart Murdoch and Roger Ales.
“The Media Trust remained above 50% until 44% falls in 2004, and it has not increased to the majority level since then. The highest reading in the last decade in 2018 was 45%, which came only two years after the confidence between the Divine 2016 presidential campaign,” Galp said in his most recent survey.
Ultimately, according to Galp, “generation -to -generation and media carries the erosion of confidence, with older adults still have more confidence in press than small Americans.
The survey firm concluded, “Young Democrats may have a lower confidence in the future, seeing the relatively low confidence in the media, until the Republican Trust is rebound,” the survey firm concluded. “The challenge for news organizations is not only to give fair and accurate reporting, but also to achieve reliability beyond a rapid polar and skeptical public.”