US News – by ALLIE BIDWELL Continuing a decades-long downward trend, fewer than one-fourth of Americans have confidence in newspapers, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The percentage of Americans saying they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers dropped to 23 percent this year from 25 percent last year, according to a report on the poll, which was released Monday.
American confidence in newspapers reached its peak at 51 percent in 1979, and a low of 22 percent in 2008.
But newspapers don’t stand alone. Confidence in television news has also been slipping — it’s tied with newspapers this year at 23 percent, which is slightly up from last year’s all-time low of 21 percent. Newspapers and television news rank near the bottom of a list of 16 “societal institutions,” according to the report. The only institutions television news and newspapers beat out this year are big business, organized labor, health maintenance organizations and Congress. Americans expressed the most confidence in the military, at 76 percent, and small businesses, at 65 percent.
Gallup attributed the drop in confidence to a number of factors, including a growth in social networking websites and an online audience that left news outlets struggling to find their place.
“Americans’ confidence in newspapers and television news has been slowly eroding for many years, worsening further since 2007,” the report says. “By that point, newspapers and television news had been struggling for years to figure out how to adjust their strategy for a growing Internet audience.”
Though all key demographic groups express low levels of confidence in the media, according to the report, the levels of negativity varied by age, education and gender. College graduates are less likely to trust the media than those with only a high school diploma, for example. The poll also found that women are slightly more confident than men in both television news and newspapers.
Much of the confidence can also be measured by political orientation. Conservatives remain the most critical of newspapers and television news, while liberals are the most supportive. Confidence in newspapers by party also mirrors their ideologies. Democrats are most confident, at 33 percent, while Republicans, at 16 percent, are least confident.
“The divided Congress, with Democrats controlling the Senate and Republicans the House, is likely part of the reason for the low levels of confidence rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans express, and is tied to Americans’ frustrations with Congress’ inability to get much done,” the report says.
These poll results prove that victory for our side is inevitable, because it shows that people are leaving the Zionist’s false-reality in droves.
We’ve never been a very vocal group, because those who know the reality of our situation also know there’s little to be gained by protesting, and signing petitions, but instead the truth is being spread without much recordable fanfare.
As soon as someone sees through the lies of the Zionist media, they’re on our side, and even the Gallup organization doesn’t know the full story. Any inaccuracy in their poll results, will again err in the favor of our opponents, because many of the people on our side either will not or cannot be polled for lack of phone service.
“Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Newspapers and Television News”
People shouldn’t trust anything or anyone, instead they should acquire the appropriate knowledge and form their own opinions on issues that matter to them.
There has never been a better time in the history of humanity to acquire knowledge from multiple sources and then apply logic and reasoning to your observations to arrive at a good approximation of what we call ‘truth’.
When people tell you what to think they are just peddling their own agenda.
“By that point, newspapers and television news had been struggling for years to figure out how to adjust their strategy for a growing Internet audience.”
Umm…how about trying to tell the TRUTH for once or letting the people decide for themselves without being biased. HELLO!!!!!
“Gallup attributed the drop in confidence to a number of factors, including a growth in social networking websites and an online audience that left news outlets struggling to find their place.”
Yes, a growth in social networking sites is the REAL reason why we all stopped watching news. OMG, who’s bright idea was that?
Gee….Maybe it’s because the news is made up of lying garbage created and paid for by our Zionist/Communist foreign government that doesn’t represent us and that’s the real reason why we stopped watching and started going to social networking sites which have smarter people than foreign reporting idiots like Britain’s Piers Morgan and who actually know what is going on. Maybe it’s because CNN and FOX news have gotten caught showing fake footage of events that never happened and expect us to believe them anymore? Maybe it’s because after all of that, a normal broadcasting company that I would have set up years ago would have been off the air and out of business long ago, but for some strange reason, THEY ARE STILL ON THE AIR and that doesn’t seem a little strange to people???!!! (Government owned and operated? I THINK SO!)
“Much of the confidence can also be measured by political orientation.
“The divided Congress, with Democrats controlling the Senate and Republicans the House, is likely part of the reason for the low levels of confidence rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans express, and is tied to Americans’ frustrations with Congress’ inability to get much done,” the report says.”
And lastly, when all else fails, let’s use the infamous excuse of blaming the false left/right paradigm.
(Sigh!…) And they wonder why no one likes or listens to them. I blame it on their tunnel vision. But that’s just me.
“Americans expressed the most confidence in the military, at 76 percent, and small businesses, at 65 percent.”
WHERE THE HELL DO THEY GET THEIR SHIT???? Confidence in small businesses which are going under at an exponential rate? Confidence in the military which is overseas and not protecting us at home? Where the hell do they get those high numbers?
It must be fun to have a job that allows you to print your own delusional, fantasy world as truth and get away with it.
I can’t think of one single reason they should.