{"id":1562716,"date":"2022-07-20T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562716"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:04:09","slug":"poll-americans-confidence-in-media-plummets-to-all-time-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-americans-confidence-in-media-plummets-to-all-time-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Americans\u2019 Confidence In Media Plummets To All-Time Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-americans-confidence-in-media-plummets-to-all-time-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Americans\u2019 confidence in media, specifically in newspapers and television news, has reached record low numbers, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/394817\/media-confidence-ratings-record-lows.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup<\/a> poll out Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its annual polling of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/394283\/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">16 major U.S. institutions<\/a>, Gallup has tracked the steady decline of confidence in newspapers since 1973 and in television since 1993. In the 2022 poll, conducted June 1-20, only 16 percent of Americans have a \u201cgreat deal\/quite a lot of confidence in newspapers,\u201d and 11 percent have the same degree of confidence in TV news. This leaves 46 percent of Americans with \u201cvery little\/no\u201d confidence in newspapers and a staggering 53 percent, a majority, with the same degree of confidence in television news.<\/p>\n<p>In an industry that has changed drastically over the past few decades thanks to the internet, the two media sources rank almost at the bottom in terms of confidence ratings among U.S. institutions. In fact, confidence in the news has never been lower, with both newspaper and TV news ratings dropping 5 percentage points since 2021. Congress ranks last, with only 7 percent confidence, and small businesses rank first with 68 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At 35 percent, Democrats have higher confidence in newspapers than do Republicans (5 percent) and independents (12 percent), but it has fallen during the Biden administration. During the Trump years, Democrats ranged from 42-46 percent confident in newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>A similar trend occurred among Democrats, Republicans, and independents in their attitudes toward television news, with Democrats being 20 percent confident compared to Republicans\u2019 8 percent and independents\u2019 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the only poll that has recorded Americans\u2019 increasing distrust of the media. Other Gallup surveys \u2014 about whether Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/355526\/americans-trust-media-dips-second-lowest-record.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trust<\/a> that the media will report the news \u201cfully, accurately, and fairly,\u201d and whether they believe <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/388649\/military-brass-judges-among-professions-new-image-lows.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporters<\/a> are ethical \u2014 both reveal very little trust.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elise McCue is an intern at The Federalist and student majoring in multimedia journalism and professional and technical writing. She also reports on the Southwest Virginia music scene for The Roanoke Times. 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