Do You Feel Confident in the Television News?
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2012/07/15 18:36:59
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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?
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?
Read More: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155585/Americans-Confid...
Top Opinion
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Mrs. maggot 2012/07/15 20:15:58
my personal feelings are the networks are all liers to one degree or another.
911 really knocked the wind outta me and Iv'e lost all faith in "them"
I trust the internet more.
Foreign news programmes such as RT (Russia Today), BBC, Al-Jazerra English, NHK, IBN (Israel), Deustche Welle, and quite a few others, are much, MUCH better than ANY American "news" programme as they ACTUALLY report the news.
It is pure propaganda, psychological warfare.
This 132 year old quote is as accurate today as it was when he said it (of course, their was no TV news back then, but, the same applies to any major media outlet today):
Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:
" There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an
independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you
who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others
of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who
would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the
streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of
the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; ...
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It is pure propaganda, psychological warfare.
This 132 year old quote is as accurate today as it was when he said it (of course, their was no TV news back then, but, the same applies to any major media outlet today):
Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:
" There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an
independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you
who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others
of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who
would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the
streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of
the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to
vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his
daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting
an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men
behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. "
Just do a search for Operation Mockingbird.
It doesn't matter if it's ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN & Anderson Cooper(CIA), or Faux News Channel (NOT CONSERVATIVE, but, PURE NEOCON!), It's all LIES, DISTORTIONS, & just plain SILENCE on real news stories that should be told!
They keep up the illusion of a two-party system(divide & conquer) with their endless, & mindless coverage of the political theater of this phony & COMPLETELY CORRUPT election process, desperately trying to make us think the Presidents are actually elected, or that they really have any power. They are in fact, nothing but (willing) puppets of the globalists. There is NO difference between Barack Romney & Mitt Obama. There is NO CHOICE! The presidents come & go, but the Synagogue of Satan(search that) globalists' agenda just goes on & on. They don't care which supposed "candidate" is the next puppet in chief (as long as it's not Ron Paul)!
A good example was the last pro life walf for life in SF, CA. There were tens of thousands of people walking in peaceful protest to elective abortion....and maybe at most 200 pro abortion people. The news showed a short clip that said a few pro life protesters showed up and made it seem like they were a bunch of nuts when it was loads of people...families.
I take most of what I see with a grain of salt because it is SO biased.
BBC: "On the campaign trail, President Obama gives a speech to key voters at an Autoworker's Union rally in Detroit."
Faux: "Obama panders to union chronies at Government Motors plant using Saul Alinsky tactics."
MSNBS: "Obama single-handedly saves American auto industry with golden speech that makes Chris Matthew's leg tingle."