Americans’ distrust in media at alarming levels, poll reveals
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(Worthy News) – Americans’ distrust for the news media to tell the story straight has reached unprecedented levels, an alarming development for any functioning democracy, a new poll reveals.
The “low levels of public trust in the nation’s polarized media environment” arrived as a key finding in a survey released Tuesday by the Knight Foundation and Gallup Inc., which have tracked public sentiment about media preferences for years.
Overall, pollsters found wide agreement that U.S. media is necessary to ward off misinformation, but few Americans believe that job’s being tackled by the press. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]
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