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According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans’ confidence in television news is at an all-time low. In 1993, when Gallup first started tracking confidence in our news networks, 46% of adults expressed a great deal or quite a lot of confidence. By last year, the percentage had dropped to 27%. This year, it’s even lower at 21%.

Interestingly, confidence levels dropped across almost all subgroups regardless of age, gender, political beliefs, or education. It used to be that conservatives were more skeptical of TV news than liberals and moderates. But in recent years, confidence within the latter two groups has plummeted and is now about even with conservatives.

“It is not clear precisely why Americans soured so much on television news this year compared with last,” read the Gallup report. “Americans' negativity likely reflects the continuation of a broader trend that appeared to enjoy only a brief respite last year. Americans have grown more negative about the media in recent years, as they have about many other U.S. institutions and the direction of the country in general.”

Gallup also went to great lengths to point out that this data was collected weeks before both CNN and Fox News mistakenly reported that the Supreme Court had found the Affordable Healthcare Act unconstitutional. It’s likely that this incident of erroneous reporting may have further soured Americans on television news.

So, what about you SodaHeads? Do you feel confident in the television news?

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  • mikeeonly 2012/07/31 06:36:05
    No
    mikeeonly
    I detest reporters. They are so fake in they way they try to act interested in what they are reporting. I don't like they way they take everything out of context. The media system in general is hitting. I'd rather listen to a news station on the radio. At least the reporters aren't trying so hare to be a star.
  • Kingarthurup 2012/07/30 18:15:41
    No
    Kingarthurup
    only FOX
  • Cirsten Hahn 2012/07/26 18:12:57
    No
    Cirsten Hahn
    They love the dramatic effect nowadays
  • hapman 2012/07/22 19:33:56
  • Ledford 2012/07/18 00:20:28
    No
    Ledford
    +1
    There should have been F*ck No as a choice. All major networks are garbage. The only place to get unbiased news today is on freelance news sites on the net.
  • Mr. Won... Ledford 2012/07/19 03:33:18 (edited)
    Mr. Wonderful
    LOL! Idiot!

    Take today's big story, the Syrian bombing killing several high officials. All the major networks played it straight down the middle. No coloring, no political slanting. They simply reported the story.
  • Ledford Mr. Won... 2012/07/19 18:48:50
    Ledford
    LMAO Troll
    So reporting 1 story without bias or nonsense means that they are relavant? They pick and choose what they want to run based on the estimated viewing numbers. Major news networks are based in finance not fact or newsworthyness.

    Question for you on how relavent the newz is:
    How long did they talk about Michael Jackson when he died?
    ...it is all about entertainment not facts.
  • Mr. Won... Ledford 2012/07/19 23:29:34
  • Ledford Mr. Won... 2012/07/21 23:43:54
    Ledford
    Apparently you are blind, deaf, and puerile keep believing what you choose that is your right and a child cannot help being a child.
  • Mr. Won... Ledford 2012/07/22 02:57:38
    Mr. Wonderful
    You been a life long right wing idiot?
  • Ledford Mr. Won... 2012/07/22 03:00:08
    Ledford
    LMAO, I am in no way any wing. I look at facts and believe that fox is as bad as CNN and MSNBC. Thanks for commenting though, it gave me something to do.
  • Shantay... Mr. Won... 2012/07/28 21:32:33
    Shantay Thompson
    That's because the U.S. Supposedly has no presence in Syria. So what do we care if we ironically give straight forward information to the Assad regime? For the first time since Vietnam have reporters been allowed to have access and the go-ahead to give unfettered access to information. Now, not only does the world know what the civilians are doing to protect themseves, so does the Assad Army!!!!! If we had such unrestrained reporting here within our government and financial institutions, we would save ourselves much destruction and heart-ache. Now, things are so manipulated, we can't tell which is fact or fiction unless the public searches themselves.
  • Zach 2012/07/17 21:56:49
    No
    Zach
    +1
    They all have an agenda. MSNBC and CNN Cheer the democrats while bashing the republicans and Fox News is the exact opposite
  • Greg 2012/07/17 21:54:56
    No
    Greg
    They are all biased. Most are biased left, but then a few are biased right. What happened to fair, accurate, and unbiased reporting?
  • Jkirk3279 2012/07/17 21:50:16
    No
    Jkirk3279
    +1
    They're all run by giant corporations. To a point, they say what they want you to hear.

    The Internet is a better source of news, and Free Speech TV.
  • Margaret Jacobson 2012/07/17 20:24:24
    No
    Margaret Jacobson
    +1
    these people are "educated" actors who read what they are told to read !!
  • scbluesman13 2012/07/17 20:06:39
    No
    scbluesman13
    +1
    The only news report I trust to any degree is the War & Peace Report done by Amy Goodman, on NPR. And even then some of the reporting that's done on that show I know isn't 100% accurate.
  • Julian 2012/07/17 19:44:12
    No
    Julian
    +1
    Except for these guys.
  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/17 20:07:41
    scbluesman13
    Alex Jones isn't news. That guy is just completely off the deep end with conspiracy theories and survivalist culture.
  • Julian scblues... 2012/07/17 20:19:39
    Julian
    +1
    And yet they are proven right time and again.

  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/17 20:36:14
    scbluesman13
    +1
    Alex Jones and thousands of others predicted what would happen on 9/11 based on intelligence briefings, military training operations, and overseas intel being passed between us, Israel, and the UK for years. It wasn't a matter of "if", but "when". When the carlisle group nearly bankrupted the taliban over the failed pipeline deal near the kyrzikstan border, it was all but a done deal that retaliation on american soil might happen.

    But I'll be more specific about Mr. Jones, since I've listened to quite a bit of his material, both on his radio show and on the video clips on his website. I remember a particular 3-hour radio show he did on the child sacrifice of supposedly high-up secretive illuminati secret society members. That they would travel around the world, snatch up young children, and sacrifice them to drink their blood for vitality. He even went so far as to have 2 people on he considered "experts" in the goings-on of these secret societies who had written books on the matter, but could never once provide a shred of evidence or even plausible circumstancial evidence to back the claims.

    I remember listening to another show, this one was in January of 2012 sometime, where he was talking about a family trip he took out to the grand canyon, and made several stops along...




    Alex Jones and thousands of others predicted what would happen on 9/11 based on intelligence briefings, military training operations, and overseas intel being passed between us, Israel, and the UK for years. It wasn't a matter of "if", but "when". When the carlisle group nearly bankrupted the taliban over the failed pipeline deal near the kyrzikstan border, it was all but a done deal that retaliation on american soil might happen.

    But I'll be more specific about Mr. Jones, since I've listened to quite a bit of his material, both on his radio show and on the video clips on his website. I remember a particular 3-hour radio show he did on the child sacrifice of supposedly high-up secretive illuminati secret society members. That they would travel around the world, snatch up young children, and sacrifice them to drink their blood for vitality. He even went so far as to have 2 people on he considered "experts" in the goings-on of these secret societies who had written books on the matter, but could never once provide a shred of evidence or even plausible circumstancial evidence to back the claims.

    I remember listening to another show, this one was in January of 2012 sometime, where he was talking about a family trip he took out to the grand canyon, and made several stops along the way to visit several cave sites. One place in particular, in Nevada, he went on a rant about how they had government "jackbooted thugs" all over the place questioning people. According to him, they recognized him when he came into the gift shop, and began interrogating him. Well none of this ever happened. He made it all up. What actually happened was that the gift shop clerk was chatting him up asking where they were from and if they were having a good time, but that wasn't exciting enough for him, so he had to turn it into some woven tale of government fascism on his radio show.

    Fema camps. This is an especially favorite story of his. You'll often hear him go off the rails about how Obama and the "globalists" are setting up fema camp trailers all over the united states, that they will use as detention houses when they start rounding up people to throw them off their land and imprison them should they try to resist the globalist overthrow of the American way of life. I always give a little chuckle when I hear this one, since the US government (post-katrina) built too many of them in anticipation of future disasters, and began selling them off at a loss to other entities that would use them as miscellaneous storage facilities or mobile offices, often for pennies on the dollar.


    Anyway, I could go on about this guy, but I will say one thing about him. He truly believes that the crap he spouts is the truth. He believes in the doomsday scenario, and he's got lots of survival seed packs, AR-10 assault rifles, and bars of gold to sell you...
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  • Julian scblues... 2012/07/17 21:20:17
    Julian
    +1
    Okay, so THOUSANDS of people predicted 911 huh... show me video of ONE.

    "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased." http://www.corpwatch.org/arti...

    Readiness Exercise 1984 (REX-84) is an emergency response program involving the implementation of martial law, the movement of civilian populations and the arrest and detainment of segments of the population. A rehearsal of the program was carried out April 5-13, 1984. It was led by FEMA and the Department of Defense and involved the coordination of 34 other Federal departments and agencies. [11] REX-84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra hearings [12] and publicly exposed by the Miami Herald on Sunday July 5th, 1987. [13]

    Similar large-scale emergency preparedness drills have taken place regularly since then. The most recently announced, organized by NORTHCOM, are scheduled for October 15-20. [14] Some a...




    Okay, so THOUSANDS of people predicted 911 huh... show me video of ONE.

    "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased." http://www.corpwatch.org/arti...

    Readiness Exercise 1984 (REX-84) is an emergency response program involving the implementation of martial law, the movement of civilian populations and the arrest and detainment of segments of the population. A rehearsal of the program was carried out April 5-13, 1984. It was led by FEMA and the Department of Defense and involved the coordination of 34 other Federal departments and agencies. [11] REX-84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra hearings [12] and publicly exposed by the Miami Herald on Sunday July 5th, 1987. [13]

    Similar large-scale emergency preparedness drills have taken place regularly since then. The most recently announced, organized by NORTHCOM, are scheduled for October 15-20. [14] Some assert that the drills continue to include preparations for the suspension of the Constitution and the implementation of martial law. [15]

    In August 2002, then Attorney General John Ashcroft called for American citizens who are deemed ‘enemy combatants’ to be detained indefinitely without charge and independently of the judiciary. [21] This legal position was upheld in the case of a US citizen detained abroad by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a January 2003 ruling. [22]

    Citizens who are concerned about the purpose and potential use of the detainment camps have documented and, when possible, filmed the detainment facilities. A current estimate of the number of detainment camps is over 800 located in all regions of the United States with varying maximum capacities. [27] If one includes government buildings currently used for other purposes the number is far greater.
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/...
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  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/17 21:29:12 (edited)
    scbluesman13
    Thank you for proving my point. Drills prove that the government takes steps for disaster preparedness, nothing more. Would you rather have another hurricane rip through our southeastern seaboard and have all of our government agencies completely at a loss as to how to respond? Would that make you feel more free?
  • Julian scblues... 2012/07/17 23:56:35
    Julian
    +1
    I think it's one thing to prepare for disasters, quite another to build concentration camps.
  • Koma Julian 2012/07/18 16:20:54
    Koma
    +1
    True, there are no living quarters at FEMA camps, only large gas chambers and 1,000s of coffins.
  • Mr. Won... Koma 2012/07/22 02:58:28
    Mr. Wonderful
    You right wing psychos are sure nuts alright.
  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/18 19:32:28
    scbluesman13
    There are no concentration camps being built in this country, that's just your own mind wandering to the worst possible conclusion without any solid evidence. There are FEMA disaster camps that are set up to temporarily house people in the event of a natural disaster, nothing more. They are not designed to imprison anyone.
  • Julian scblues... 2012/07/18 22:18:02
    Julian
    +1
    " A current estimate of the number of detainment camps is over 800 located in all regions of the United States with varying maximum capacities." http://www.globalresearch.ca/...
    jesse ventura fema camps
    fema coffins fema coffins
  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/18 22:47:55
    scbluesman13
    And did you read the entire article you've just sourced? It says nothing about our government's intention or past action of ever detaining American citizens unconstitutionally, nor does it provide any evidence that it has actually occurred or will occur.
  • Julian scblues... 2012/07/18 22:57:50
    Julian
    "In August 2002, then Attorney General John Ashcroft called for American citizens who are deemed ‘enemy combatants’ to be detained indefinitely without charge and independently of the judiciary." http://www.globalresearch.ca/...

    The Sixth Amendment Of the US Constitution
    "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/18 23:00:10
    scbluesman13
    And did that happen? No it did not.
  • Julian scblues... 2012/07/18 23:02:50
    Julian
    Not yet.
  • scblues... Julian 2012/07/18 23:06:54
    scbluesman13
    And that's entirely my point. Your whole argument is premised on something you *think* will happen, but has not happened in the 33 years FEMA has existed. Not once. That is the definition of fear and paranoia, not critical analysis.
  • Shantay... scblues... 2012/07/28 21:45:33
    Shantay Thompson
    So our people behind the scenes, hiding behind the puppets of government are as pure as angels?! How do you know if Jones is "making up things?" Were you there? Did you not witness this? You would believe the mainstream BS because your so indoctrinated to do so. Yet anyone who is a critical, out-of-the box thinker is just a person not in touch w reality? You seem to know so much about Jones' Shows....... Me thinks thou doest protest too much. If you even know what THAT means......
  • Shantay... scblues... 2012/07/28 21:48:28
    Shantay Thompson
    Oh, and you are phycic I suppose????????
  • davyd god loving patriot 2012/07/17 18:25:37
    No
    davyd god loving patriot
    +1
    Hell no, the media also hates America , now they can prop up the haters and as pelosi said free-riders, typical empty headed fools, you know what abc, cbs, and nbc stand for................and the rest
  • ZippyTheWonderMonkey 2012/07/17 18:13:04
    No
    ZippyTheWonderMonkey
    +1
    Not in the least bit
  • Ryan 2012/07/17 17:40:32
    No
    Ryan
    +3
    Between Fox news pushing a right agenda, and most of the others pushing a left, there is no such thing as objective TV Journalism anymore.
  • ART 2012/07/17 17:00:32
    Yes
    ART
    +1
    OF COURSE, IT IS THE ONLY POLITICALLY ACCEPTED DISEASE
  • Michael Mcconnell 2012/07/17 16:52:30
    No
    Michael Mcconnell
    +3
    I can always tell if someone watches CNN instead of reading books or taking a class.
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