Apparently, that which has long been referred to as our "mainstream" media in this country, these days, is coming to be recognized by more and more Americans as maybe being not so "mainstream" after all. And most definitely those involved are no longer viewed as being a trustworthy source of information. Let’s face it, our supposed ‘news’ media long ago morphed into a cadre of individuals who, today, take great pleasure in serving as nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
Today our ‘mainstream’ news media has come to be identified by many Americans as our own little version of a state-controlled media complex. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why that might be. Let’s face it, any genuine ‘news’ story that does not fit the politically correct narrative of the day that they want to advance, simply goes reported on. Many in our present-day news media no longer see their primary mission as one of making sure that the pubic remains properly informed.
Results from a recent Gallup poll would seem to indicate that Americans' confidence in the news media has tumbled to what are all new lows, and it doesn't much matter much whether the source is newspapers, television or the Internet. The poll, which was released on Thursday, found the level of faith in each of three major news media platforms, television news, newspapers, and news on the Internet, is either at or is tied with previous record lows, extending what has been a rather longstanding downward trend.
Apparently, for some bizarre reason, confidence in US newspapers was marginally better than rival media outlets, but still it has dropped to 22 percent as reflected in the June 5-8 survey, declining more than half from a 1979 peak of 51 percent. For television news, the percentage of respondents with a good deal of confidence was 19 percent, extending the decline from its 1993 peak at 46 percent. And it is just 18 percent who said they trusted online news, which compares with 21 percent from 1999 survey.
Those identifying themselves as liberals had slightly more confidence in newspapers, while conservatives had a higher level of trust in TV news. Speaking only for myself, I tend to stay away from most newspapers and watch very little TV news. I find that both possess an obvious bias to the left. It was Gallup's Andrew Dugan, writing in a blog post, who said, "The field of news media has changed dramatically since Gallup first began measuring the confidence the public held in newspapers or TV news decades ago."
He went on to say, "Amid this rapid change, Americans hold all news media platforms in low confidence. How these platforms can restore confidence with the American public is not clear, especially as editorial standards change and most outlets lack the broad reach once available to major newspapers and broadcasters." Personally, I would think that regaining the trust of the America people would be a relatively simple matter. All one would have to do is to simply tell the truth no matter where it might lead.
I tend to stay away from the network news shows as well as CNN and MSNBC, primarily because it’s now gotten so obvious that they now see as being their primary purpose as being the defenders of Barry "Almighty". My main source of news information on television is Fox News, but I don’t watch them near as much as I used to. Americans are starved for news and usable information, and it’s no simple task to get and to stay informed these days. But it’s imperative that each one of us do our best to do so.
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