Terry Jones – Issues & Insights
It may be that after four years of creeping censorship and post-pandemic public silencing, a large share of Americans no longer trust anyone to protect their rights, even those media outlets that seem to agree with them. If so, media of all stripes might be in bigger trouble with the public than they realize.
"No matter which major party’s candidate wins this election, there’s one sure loser: The media. By nearly two-to-one, voters say they have little or no trust in either the mainstream big media or the alternative media. Can a country survive when two thirds of its people distrust the reporting of its main news outlets?
""In the September I&I/TIPP Poll of 1,582 adults, taken from Aug. 28-Aug. 30 with a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points, there was more glum news for the nation’s major news outlets. Americans profoundly distrust the stories they tell and how they tell them.
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| Kristin Welker |
That’s not an exaggeration. As it does each month, I&I/TIPP asked Americans for this month’s poll:
“Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the traditional or established news media (Example: Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CBS News, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”
"The answer: Just 35% said they either trusted the mainstream “traditional” media “a lot” (13%) or “quite a bit” (22%). On the flip side, 60% said they had either “little trust” (32%) or “no trust at all” (28%)."
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