Do You Feel Confident in the Television News?

by SodaHead News Posted 2012/07/15 18:36:59

Related Topics: News Networks, Television, TV, Television News, Ratings, Low, Percentage, CNN, Fox News, Gallup

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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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Mrs. maggot 2012/07/15 20:15:58

No

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Quit watching it about 10 years ago.
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Happy212121 2012/07/16 17:04:36

No

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......unless confident that they shouldn't refer to themselves as the "news" counts!

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bob 2012/07/16 16:55:03

Yes

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I'm confident that the news is as polorizied as it's ever been. Now we have news made for liberals conservatives. libertarians and authoritarians. so watch what you desire to watch

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Old Timer 2012/07/16 16:54:31

No

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Anderson can now3 get the "TINGLE" for OBAMA with a whole different meaning.

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XZQZQ 2012/07/16 16:52:57

No

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Don't watch TV ' News '.... Don't watch TV in general.

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jakep51 2012/07/16 16:34:38

No

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Main stream media, in particular CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC and any PBS outlets are all so liberally biased that truth is secondary to pushing g their agenda.

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Mr. Won... to jakep51 2012/07/16 16:42:16 (edited)

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Typical rightwinger that SoadHead is infested with, didn't mention FoxNews, by far the most biased.

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jakep51 to Mr. Won... 2012/07/16 16:46:18

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The deception you have fallen pray to is that if not liberally biased, then one must be extremely biased the other direction.

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justfred to jakep51 2012/07/16 17:20:39

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Prior to Faux News, journalists endeavored to tell the truth.

Faux was initiated to give the other side.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/16 22:26:10

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Journalists defined the truth according to the liberal establishment's biases and narrative prior to the new media of talk radio and the internet. That was how the public was made aware of the main stream media's deceptive practices and landfill of falsehoods they've been feeding us for the last 60 years. Fox News owes its popularity over all the other media outlets to telling the WHOLE story that the liberal faux news suppresses in their servitude to the Democrats.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/17 01:13:55

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Yes, you're right. Liberals deal in the truth while CONs, fueled by Faux News, take the other position.

I don't know how you live with yourself, thinking that the truth is somehow deceptive and a landfill of falsehoods, while your venerated Faux News sued to ensure it's right to lie to the public.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/17 01:55:31

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I don't know how you live with your completely inverted reading comprehension. Must play hell with you on prescriptions and repair projects. I said the liberal faux news organizations suppress the WHOLE STORY in their servitude to the Democrats. Not FOX NEWS.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/17 14:18:10

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I know what you said. However, like usual (other times we have conversed) you are wrong.

You are probably so used to it that you don't realize it, though...just like everything else you don't realize.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/18 06:26:50

And yet you can never elaborate what I'm wrong about. You only resort to personal insults and cheap shots. Sure you're not the one who doesn't realize he's wrong?

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/18 17:04:37

In this case you are wrong about the 'liberal media' and the accuracy of Faux News.

In other cases you are wrong about other things too numerous to mention, here.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/21 21:54:37

I think you're nothing but an ignorant blow hard who's chosen sides without putting any thought into it. That's why you still can't elaborate how I'm wrong about the liberal media and Fox News which you keep misspelling. There's absolutely no intellectual value to your opinions.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/23 15:25:29

No, the misspelling of Faux news is 'Fox' - - - because it is truly false news.

The advent of Faux News was the beginning of the downfall for American journalism as a whole.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/24 08:18:12

You're aware 'faux' is pronounced 'fo', aren't you? That makes your attempt at parody childishly lame. But you're probably also too dim to be aware of how dishonest and propaganda driven the mainstream news organizations are.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/24 09:23:01

Yes, I know how faux is pronounced. Do you know what it means? It means fake, fraudulent, ingenuine and false. In other words, it describes the only news network who has successfully sued to ensure it's right to lie to the public.

How else would you describe it?

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/25 23:21:39

The case concerning the local Fox affiliate in Florida is nothing compared to the almost weekly uncovered lies and omissions of the mainstream news outlets. You're looking in the wrong direction for fraud.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/26 00:51:58

Really? Has any other major news outlet sued for the right to lie?

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/27 03:03:21

Major news settle out of court all the time.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/27 13:52:22

....and you, the great all seeing, is privvy to all these settlements.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/28 03:07:02

More privy than you.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/28 04:46:41

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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jakep51 to Soundstorm 2012/07/17 12:29:48

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Bingo, and now most Liberals, (SEE Justfred) are so enamored with the liberal mantra they believe the lies at the drop of a hat and never question what they are told.

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Soundstorm to jakep51 2012/07/18 06:29:06

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Like a faithful dog that responds to the whistle of his master. And doesn't bark when his master breaks in and murders somebody. (A little Sherlock Holmes reference there.)

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jakep51 to justfred 2012/07/17 12:24:21

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Please, Prior to Fox, the Liberal spin was untouchable. Most who hate Fox despise them because they are not so biased as their beloved MSM outlets and that just pisses them (you) off.

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justfred to jakep51 2012/07/17 14:21:16

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If that is the case then why are Faux News viewers the least informed people in America?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/k...
http://www.alternet.org/media...
http://www.washingtonmonthly....

What Faux News tells you is a combination of what you want to hear and what they want you to think.

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jakep51 to justfred 2012/07/17 16:33:06

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Hmmm lets see Liberally biased networks slamming fox. Now there's information you can count on to be truthful.

Be content in the knowledge that as with any weak minded individual who has bought the liberal lies of the MSM you have been hoodwinked lock stock and barrel, and you don;t even know it.

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justfred to jakep51 2012/07/17 23:30:56

Forbes is MSM?

You're nuts....right.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/18 06:35:07

But it is. Just like Fortune. Those thinning old time money losing print rags seem to attract leftist academic geeks spewed out by the universities to spread their liberal establishment spin to a shrinking readership. Steve Forbes probably doesn't care anymore.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/18 18:29:26

Yeah...Steve Forbes, a sitting member of the board of directors of The Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute wouldn't care?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Got delusional?

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/21 22:04:02

This liberal website has noticed it too.
http://waynedemocrats.org/ult...

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/23 15:26:30

Anyone or anything who describes Forbes Magazine as 'ultra-liberal' has no credibility.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/24 08:20:12

Since I'm not calling Forbes ultra-liberal your statement is totally meaningless.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/24 09:23:26

Your link does.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/25 23:28:12

I'm just saying your qualifying term "ultra" is undefined and pointlessly subjective unless you care to lend it some clarity. But Forbes has definitely allowed itself to degenerate into a liberal rag lately.

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justfred to Soundstorm 2012/07/26 00:52:34

Your term 'liberal' is also undefined and pointlessly subjective.

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Soundstorm to justfred 2012/07/27 03:07:53

'Liberal' is the term stolen by social progressives in the 1930's to promote political policies under a name more pleasing to the public than Socialism. But Socialism is the true and objective agenda of modern Liberalism.

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