Friday, September 18, 2009

People think the press gets a lot wrong. Maybe they’re right. | MediaBugs Blog

See the full post for a stark reality check

Americans trust the news media less than ever: “Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate,” according to the latest results from the Pew Research Center released this week. That represents a drop of 10 percentage points from 2007, when 53% of Americans said that news stories were often inaccurate. And an alarming 70 percent of people surveyed believe that news organizations “try to cover up their mistakes.”

Pew Research Center survey report 

People think the press gets a lot wrong. Maybe they’re right. | MediaBugs Blog

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