US confidence in media hits fresh low: Gallup [View all]
Source: AFP
Washington (AFP) - Americans' trust in the media has sunk to a new low, and a bitter presidential race may be to blame, a Gallup survey showed Wednesday.
The poll asking whether the media report the news "fully, accurately and fairly" found just 32 percent of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust, the lowest level in Gallup polling history and eight percentage points below last year. Gallup began asking the question in 1972, and has polled Americans on a yearly basis since 1997.
Trust and confidence in the media hit its highest point in 1976, at 72 percent following the investigative journalism coverage of the Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, according to the research group. But confidence has been below 50 percent since 2007.
"While it is clear Americans' trust in the media has been eroding over time, the election campaign may be the reason that it has fallen so sharply this year," Gallup said in its report.
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