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Americans no longer trust the media: Gallup - Grandote - 06-14-2016
It seems the public is wising up. The saying you can't fool all the people all the time appears to be true. But even the 20% who believe the media are enough to tip elections so we will be treated to the usual garbage filled propaganda which will only become more shrill and ridiculous as the november election approaches.
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/06/poll-2016-is-the-year-americans-stopped-trusting-the-establishment-especially-the-media.html
In ten years, Americans’ confidence in television and print news crashed to an all-time low,according to the latest Gallup poll.
After mainstream media coverage of the massacre in Orlando on Sunday largely failed to dig further after multiple witnesses came forward suggesting more than one attacker was involved, that lack of trust seems logical.
While trust in media crashed by 10 percent — newspapers hit their lowest confidence rating since 2007, at 20 percent — other institutions fared significantly worse.
Confidence in banks, which tumbled dramatically following the financial crisis of 2008, plummeted by 22 percent — the largest loss of any institution Gallup surveyed — from 49 percent in 2006, to just 27 percent ten years later.
Virtually no one has faith in Congress anymore, as the notorious legislative body nose-dived by 10 percent — to a paltry 9 percent.