Public to Media: You Stink
I feel so unloved:
More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don’t care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed. And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news — roughly one quarter of all Americans — were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don’t care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.More than half — 53 percent — of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for “failing to stand up for America“.
Among those who get their news from newspapers and television, criticism of the news organizations was up to 20 percentage points lower than among Internet news audiences, who tend to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole, according to Pew.
Hey, look at that. According to this, I may be uncaring, biased and inaccurate, but you’re young and smart. Now, if only you were lantern-jawed, you might get some.
Topics: media
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:30 am on Friday, August 10, 2007
3 Responses to “Public to Media: You Stink”
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August 10th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Present company excepted, of course, Jules.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Second that Rebecca :-)
I’d pretty much match the conclusions of Pew about “trustability” a couple of decades ago (maybe somewhat longer) versus now.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Jules, you are the exception that makes the rule. ‘Sides, you’ve got plenty of jaw for my tastes.