Gallup reported: When Gallup began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, between 68% and 72% of Americans expressed confidence in reporting. However, by the next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%. Media trust remained just above 50% until it dropped to 44% in 2004, and it has not risen to the majority level since. The highest reading in the past decade was 45% in 2018, which came just two years after confidence had collapsed amid the divisive 2016 presidential campaign.
Republican’s trust in mass media is at 8% today.
Democrat’s trust in the mass media is at 51% today, barely a majority.
A poll back by Gallup and the Knight Foundation in 2023 found that only 26% of American’s view the news media favorably. 50% of respondents believe the mainstream media intends to mislead and misinform the public.
A 2021 report found that the US ranks dead last in media trust in polling of 46 different countries.
The poll was taken during the COVID epidemic when people trusted the media only later to find out that most everything they were told was complete fake news.
Not surprisingly, the MSM is over 92% liberal biased - Harvard Media...
