SubscribeShocker: Americans Don’t Trust The Media
From Iran’s Press TV:
Poll: Americans lose faith in media
Mon, 10 Mar 2008
A new opinion poll suggests that over 54 percent of Americans do not trust mainstream media and consider news websites more reliable.
Some 41 percent said they trust the ‘Internet news and information websites’ more than the press.
The new Harris Interactive survey reflects the findings of a Harvard University study conducted last year, which found ‘nearly two-thirds of Americans have no faith in campaign coverage by the news media’.
The poll indicates that only 30 percent ‘tend to trust the press’, while 44 percent say Radio is the most trusted media in the United States.
The poll suggests that the selective media coverage of the ongoing Iraq war has caused Americans to lose faith in mainstream media.
Funny how little attention this poll has gotten from our own watchdog media. So little that we have to go to their fellow journalists in Iran to get the news.
Isn’t irony ironic?
(And yes, the photo of the three monkeys is from Press TV.)
Update!
It turns out this Harris poll did actually get some coverage in our watchdog media. But look at the gloss they put on it.
For example, from Reuters:
Poll: Most Americans don’t read political blogs
Mon Mar 10, 2008
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday.
Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive.
Political blogs, in which writers, pundits and other participants voice opinions in online forums, burst into the spotlight in the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Some of the most high-profile blogs are influential on campaign strategies, media coverage and public perception of the candidates and issues.
Unlike traditional, mainstream media, blogs often adopt a specific point of view. Critics complain they can contain unchecked facts, are poorly edited and use unreliable sources.
Despite the attention blogs can get, the poll said 56 percent of Americans say they never read blogs that discuss politics. Another 23 percent read them several times a year, the survey showed…
And of course Reuters wasn’t alone in spinning the Harris poll results this way.
But why on earth would the news services stress the dubious claim that people don’t read the internet for news, and downplay the poll’s main finding that people don’t trust the news services?
(This is of course a rhetorical question.)
Unlike traditional, mainstream media, blogs often adopt a specific point of view. Critics complain they can contain unchecked facts, are poorly edited and use unreliable sources.
Oh, my sides.
Thank goodness that is never a problem with our objective, professional media — like Reuters.
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March 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I find it discouraging that the number is only 54%. I wish the msm was only guilty of irresponsible reporting but the truth is much darker.
Former Times reporter Strobe Talbott has just written a book titled “The Great Experiment”, which, according to Accuracy in Media, describes “his own background in the pro-world government World Federalist Movement and naming a network of friends and close associates that includes former President Bill Clinton and billionaire leftist George Soros.” Talbott is currently president of the Brookings Institute http://www.discoverthenetworks.....grpid=6890 but has served in our government as Deputy Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. His influence in foreign policy started in his days as a correspondent for Time Magazine in Moscow. It was his relationships with KGB agent Victor Louis and Russian official Georgi Mamedov that gets really intriguing.
If you’re not familiar with this story I would encourage you to see the AIM article here:
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/.....sian-dupe/
It’s filled with familiar names (including both our democratic candidates) and a web of implications. Also see this report from the American Foreign Policy Council:
http://www.afpc.org/rrm/rrm427.htm
I don’t believe we have a free press in this country but one that is driven by an anti-American agenda. As far as I’m concerned our press is in many ways violating the 1st Amendment that it hides behind.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
The Iranian article has the following “Quick Vote” on the lower right side:
“Israel’s Gaza holocaust rhetoric should prompt the international community to take:
– Punitive measures against Israel including sanctions
– Measures to protect Palestinians against Israeli attack
– No action”
I guess when dealing with Muslims, a good rule of thumb is Heads, they win! Tails, you lose!
March 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Of course this will come as a surprise to Dan Rather.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Some 41 percent said they trust the ‘Internet news and information websites’ more than the press.
Yep, agree….unless of course it’s Puffingtons.
When dealing with Muslims, a good rule of thumb is nuke them before they develop a full response capability. At least with the Soviets we were dealing with human beings that realized what a nuclear war would do to them, us, and the world. This scum religion really doesn’t care how many “martyrs” it creates.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Right Dez! Rather is an ignoramus. He and Walter have provided justification for our lack of trust and contempt.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:23 am
People should not underestimate the portion of the American population that disbelieves the MSM because they think it is controlled by Bush and his Wiretapping goons.
Of course, why they think Google would have a more altruistic reason for caching their web pages, comments, emails, and search terms, is a different psychological issue.
The point is that so many people disbelieving the Main Sewer media is not automatically a “Good Thing” tm.
In fact, because they think they don’t believe in the media, they are more likely to be influenced by the websites that they do read. Websites which get their stories from… the media and the AP. Thus propaganda arguments and lines are reproduced and they still affect the target audience, except now the target audience thinks they are immune and thus let their guards down. Which actually solidifies the brainwashing received in American universities and while growing up in the 80s and what not.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Actually everyone CAN believe the Lame Stream Media! Whatever they say believe the opposite. Works everytime.