Posted on 06/17/2013 1:00:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Americans' confidence in newspapers fell slightly to 23% this year, from 25% in 2012 and 28% in 2011.
The percentage of Americans saying they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers has been generally trending downward since 1979, when it reached a high of 51%.
Newspapers rank near the bottom on a list of 16 societal institutions Gallup measured in a June 1-4 survey. Television news is tied with newspapers on the list, with 23% of Americans also expressing confidence in it. That is up slightly from the all-time low of 21% found last year. The only institutions television news and newspapers beat out this year are big business, organized labor, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), and Congress.
Americans' confidence in television news was highest, at 46%, in 1993, when Gallup first asked about it. The question does not indicate the specific type of television news, meaning respondents could be thinking about anything ranging from cable news channels to local news when answering the survey.
Conservatives' Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Drops
Conservatives' confidence in newspapers, at 15%, is down from 21% in 2012 and 2011. Moderates' confidence has been trending downward for the past two years, and is now at 25%. Liberals remain the most confident in newspapers -- although not by much -- with 31% putting a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in them this year.
Confidence in newspapers by party mirrors the ideological findings. Democrats are most confident, at 33%, while independents are less so, at 19%, and Republicans, at 16%, are least confident.
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Tacit admission that the print media is largely left wing.
Although “newspapers” are a dying breed, they aren’t much different content-wise from internet portals. Progressive control is progressive control no matter what the platform.
I have 100% confidence that my local Atlanta Journal-Constitution is a liberal bedwetting rag. No matter how much it tries to say it isn’t in recent marketing to the suburbs.
30 plus years of liberal BS isn’t easily forgotten.
The Associated Press is nothing but a propaganda arm of the left.
“I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” - Thomas Jefferson Letter to Nathaniel Macon January 12 1819.
Please forgive me, Monty Python crew...
‘The MSM’s not pinin’! It’s passed on! Journalsim is no more! It has ceased to be! ‘It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If the libs hadn’t had support from the Obamadork, it’d be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘It’s off the twig! ‘It’s kicked the bucket, ‘It’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! It’s f*ckin’ snuffed it!..... THESE ARE EX-JOURNALISTS!!
Huzzah!!
Actually, I think it’s the other way ‘round. The Democrat Party is the political arm of the Associated Press.
Our local Alabama paper is owned by the NY slimes corp and the punk who runs it is a dim hack multiplied by 2 trillion. Everything he writes is Obama is god and conservatives are satan. No wonder they call on the phone begging you to take the bird cage liner. It’s circulation down to next to nothing. Personally I do not see how it is even still in business. Every time they have called me I told them as long as they are a dim hack mouth piece to stuff it and hang up.
In other news... Americans are unimaginably ignorant pieces of filth, who will vote for any trash, like Obama, who comes along if the newspapers tell them to....
News is whatever you want it to be.
Only miss the sports section. Don’t miss the propaganda, spin and outright lies.
I have to agree. good point.
Bastards!
Americans are unimaginably ignorant pieces of filth, who will vote for any trash, like Obama, who comes along if the newspapers tell them to....
Most people in this country can’t tell right from wrong. Discernment has been killed.
> 30 plus years of liberal BS isn’t easily forgotten.
the last 5 have been brutal. The media is expected to lie and skew the views nowadays. Really no reason to buy their rags anymore. They screwed that part of society that actually buy their products. Pretty stupid if you ask me...
“Only miss the sports section. Don’t miss the propaganda, spin and outright lies.”
In a lot of newspapers, you just described the sports section. I stopped my Sporting News subscription 25 years ago when it went from box scores to “sports as agent of social change.”
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