The public has spoken and it's not looking good for the mainstream media. The public's views of media bias and independence are now at the lowest level in more than twenty years of Pew Research surveys.
From Pew Research:
The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.
Is it really a surprise ? For example, when the Gates incident was first reported, the mainstream media plastered its headlines as 'racist cop attacks black scholar'.
Ok how is that impartial when virtually no facts were known at the time ? We now know how that incident turned out and it eventually dragged the president in to [who probably thought he had a homerun with the Cop being guilty for sure..didnt work out that way]. The media were wrong as was the president. If they were not wrong im sure that incident would be forgotten by now but they were and that case just highlights media bias so well because of it.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg. There was the WMD issue back in 01-02. That was a circus as far as lies go and media 'drum ups' for the War. The Duke Lecross case ? Again, lies and media bias.
At this time its no surprise the media has lost the faith of the people.
Posted by: Angelo Martinzez | September 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM