Pippa Monroe "The American public has lost trust in their media's capability of delivering unbiased news, a worrying development for any functioning democracy, according to a recent poll.
"The key finding of “low levels of public trust in the nation’s polarized media environment” arrived in a survey last month by the Knight Foundation and Gallup Inc., which tracks public sentiment about media.
"Pollsters found a general consensus that the media was necessary to ward off misinformation, but few Americans believe the press is doing it properly.
“ 'Most Americans have lost confidence in the media to deliver the news objectively,” said Sam Gill, Knight’s senior vice president and chief program officer.
“This is corrosive for our democracy.”
"According to the poll, more Republicans (71%) than Democrats (22%) and independents (52%) have unfavorable opinions of the media." . . .
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