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Public Trust in Media at an All-Time Low

Candy Crowley would be the poster girl if there were not so many other incidents to choose from:

Peter Wehner    "According to the most recent Gallup survey:

Americans’ confidence in the media’s ability to report “the news fully, accurately, and fairly” has returned to its previous all-time low of 40%. Americans’ trust in mass media has generally been edging downward from higher levels in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

"A few data points worth noting:

• In the last 15 years, the percentage of Americans expressing a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the media was 55 percent. The drop in trust in the media has been trending downward since then — and is now 15 points below what it was in 1999.
• Trust among Democrats, who have traditionally expressed much higher levels of confidence in the media than Republicans have, dropped to a 14-year low of 54 percent in 2014.
• Republicans’ trust in the media is at 27 percent, one percentage point above their all-time low, while independents held steady at 38 percent — up one point from 37 percent in 2013.
• Democrats — with a majority of 52 percent — are most likely to think the media are just about right, while a mere 18 percent of Republicans feel this way about the news. More than seven in 10 Republicans say the media are too liberal.
• Americans are most likely to feel the news media are “too liberal” (44 percent) rather than “too conservative,” though this perceived liberal bias is now on the lower side of the trend. One in three (34 percent) say the media are “just about right” in terms of their coverage — down slightly from 37 percent last year.
• Nearly one in five Americans (19 percent) say the media are too conservative, which is still relatively low, but the highest such percentage since 2006. This is up six points from 2013 — the sharpest increase in the percentage of Americans who feel the news skews too far right since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.

You mean like this Dan Lothian CNN question? CNN to Obama: Are GOP candidates “uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible” 

 

Egypt, Morocco, and United Arab Emirates ban “Exodus” movie

The Volokh Conspiracy

 

"The Egypt story broke late last week, but a more detailed statement was apparently released a couple of days ago, and the UAE story is new.

"1. AP reports that Egyptian censors (1) “objected to ‘intentional gross historical fallacies that offend Egypt and its pharaonic ancient history in yet another attempt to Judaize Egyptian civilization, which confirms the international Zionist fingerprints all over the film,’” (2) faulted the movie for “inaccurately depict[ing] ancient Egyptians as ‘savages’ who kill and hang Jews, arguing that hanging did not exist in ancient Egypt,” and (3) said the movie “presents a ‘racist’ depiction of Jews as a people who mounted an armed rebellion,” and (4) “objected to the depiction of God as a child.”

"2. Agence France-Press reports that Moroccan censors objected on what seems to be one of the grounds the Egyptian censors used: that the movie “contained a scene that represents God in the form of a ‘child who gives a revelation to the prophet Moses.’”....