Trust Continues to Shift Away from Mass Media

Americans continue to lose faith in corporate-controlled mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly

But a CNN Tech poll found that more Americans get news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio

GALLUP Sep 2010 | For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point.

The 43% of Americans who, in Gallup's annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, express a great deal or fair amount of trust ties the record low, and is far worse than three prior Gallup readings on this measure from the 1970s.…

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