{"id":2207165,"date":"2024-03-27T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-likely-voters-do-not-trust-news-media-poll\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:56:40","slug":"majority-of-likely-voters-do-not-trust-news-media-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-likely-voters-do-not-trust-news-media-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Most potential voters lack trust in news media"},"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%2Fmajority-of-likely-voters-do-not-trust-news-media-poll%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=2207165&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>A recent poll by The Center Square indicates\u200d that Americans have\u2064 low trust in \u2063major U.S. institutions, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\" title=\"Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media\">national news media<\/a>. The survey shows that 43% find the media trustworthy,\u200b with younger individuals more trusting. As\u200c age \u200dincreases, trust diminishes, \u200bwith only 41% of likely voters aged 65 and older\u200b trusting\u200d the media. Confidence in \u2063media coverage of critical \u200dissues and fair candidate representation is also notably low.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Americans do not trust several major U.S. institutions, particularly the national news media.<\/p>\n<p>The recently released Center Square Voters\u2019 Voice\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_ef2ffbf8-e79b-11ee-9990-b35aec8eb8b5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>poll<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0found that 43% of Americans say the media is trustworthy, compared with 54% who said it is not trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Younger people were more likely to trust the media, with 47% of those ages 18-34 saying they trust it and 46% saying the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers steadily worsen as likely voters get older, with 41% of likely voters 65-years-old and older saying they trust the media, compared to 57% who do not.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-counting-deadline-nears-dr-oz-holds-nearly-1000-vote-lead-in-pennsylvania-senate-primary\/\" title=\"As Counting Deadline Nears, Dr. Oz Holds Nearly 1,000 Vote Lead In Pennsylvania Senate Primary\">presidential election coming<\/a> in November, the poll also asked voters how confident they feel about the following statement: \u201cThe media will report on the issues that matter most to you.\u201d Only 42% said they were confident that was the case, while 54% said they were not confident.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the \u201cmedia will cover all candidates fairly,\u201d only 31% were confident the media would do so while 65% were not confident.<\/p>\n<p>Only 36% of likely voters were confident the \u201cmedia will provide enough context for voters to understand their choices\u201d while 60% were not.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were far more likely to trust the national news media, 63%-33%. Only 24% of Republicans said they trust the media while 73% do not. Independents agreed, 35%-59%, on the same question.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been more skeptical of the media for years, but former President Donald Trump famously called the media \u201cthe enemy of the people\u201d and \u201cfake news,\u201d making the relationship between Republicans and the media far more adversarial.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media has taken fire for their coverage of Trump, for dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian interference when time has proven the story as mostly true, and pushing the now largely debunked Trump-Russian collusion narrative, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As for other U.S. institutions, notably, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-american-activists-blast-bidens-pandering-anti-racism-order\/\" title=\"Asian-American Activists Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Pandering\u2019 Anti-Racism Order\">poll found<\/a> that Democratic voters do not trust the U.S. Supreme Court whereas Republicans do, and Independents are split. Overall, 56% of likely voters trust the court, while 40% do not.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. presidency saw a similar rating, but Congress fared much worse. The survey found that only 41% of likely voters trust the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 54% who do not.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate fared a bit better with 46% trusting and 50% not trusting.<\/p>\n<p>American likely voters trust their state legislatures 59%-36%, according to the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Center Square Voters\u2019 Voice poll was conducted in conjunction with Noble Predictive Insights in March, surveying 2,510 respondents roughly split between both parties along with 340 true independents. The margin of error for likely voters is +\/- 2.1%.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecentersquare.com%2Fnational%2Farticle_603b5f86-eb25-11ee-a397-839cd28602e6.html%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_campaign%3Duser-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent poll by The Center Square reveals Americans&#8217; lack of trust in major U.S. institutions, especially the national news media. According to the survey, only 43% find the media trustworthy, while 54% do not. Notably, younger individuals show a higher level of trust at 47%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24023831911329-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24023831911329-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}