Posted on 08/09/2007 5:23:52 PM PDT by Laverne
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.
The poll indicates an across the board fall in the public's opinion on the news media since 1985, when a similar survey was conducted by Times Mirror, Pew Research said.
"Two decades ago, public attitudes about how news organizations do their job were less negative. Most people believed that news organizations stood up for America... a majority believed that news organizations got the facts straight," Pew said in a report.
The Washington-based Pew Research Center describes itself as a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Two decades ago we didn't have the Internet, email, instant chat.
Today the news cycle is about five minutes long, if that. Sometimes there isn't any news cycle at all as events are reported live on blogs, etc.
But the DBM just keeps on plugging away, every day becoming just a little less relevant that the day before.
Fortunately for us, their death is slow and interesting to watch :)
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.
A poll I finally agree with!
Biased? Gee, we almost didn’t notice. The biggest campaign finance fraud in history and they won’t report it.
bump
bump
and bump
Or dying off. The older generation still reads newspapaers and news magazines, etc. The younger does not, so much.
nuh uh
Public is smarter than I thought!
I agree, so I say Thank God For the INTERNET, because now I see the bs!
I feel sorry for conservatives before the internet, and before Free Republic. Because there was nowhere to go, nowhere to be heard.
FR might have it’s issues, but it’s the granddaddy of all conservatism on the net. Without it our country would be in trouble. Thank you Jim Robinson!
The internet + FR = we’re going to keep these people at bay!
Thanks for the ping Spirit of Allegiance.
I am one of those who use the internet as my primary source for news/breaking news and news research.
What’s is amazing is that I actually heard CBS radio news talk about this!
I immediately came to the same conclusion but did not articulate it so clearly.
Godspeed,
DUH
BUMP
"Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes"
CNN seemed to avoid the reality.. the Indonesian media report stated ..
Tiap Jumat, anak sekolah mengenakan pakaian Muslimah, termasuk yang beragama non-Muslim .
And my translation of the Indonesian media report:
"Each Friday, all the school childen must wear Muslim clothes and that also includes children who are non-muslim."
Supporting links along with a complete translation of the newsreports on Obama and Indonesia at --
Notice that, even though this ‘press rel;ease” was printed by at least one MSM outlet, they added this depreciating, “so-called” explanation of the Pew Center.
A liberal “think tank” spewing biased garbage would have not been even questioned.
WOW! For once I’m in the majority!
those in the drive by’s could care less the results
of this Pew poll......The guilty drive by’s have work to do and no stinkin poll will stop their agenda
I concur.
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