US_ Gallup: Confidence in the media falls to new low ahead of presidential election

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Gallup: Confidence in the media falls to new low ahead of presidential election

News media is the least trusted of 10 civic and political institutions in a national poll

Media organizations set up outside the White House, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) more >

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times - Monday, October 14, 2024

New polling shows a record-low 31% of adults have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly” as the presidential election looms.

Gallup reported Monday that confidence is down by 1 percentage point from the 32% who said the same in a survey last year. The 2023 survey result tied that of 2016, when just 32% of adults expressed substantial trust in the media before Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defeated Democratic presidential Hillary Clinton to win the White House, for the lowest mark in the poll going back to 1972.

The polling company noted that more adults surveyed expressed no trust at all (36%) than expressed trust in newspaper, television and radio outlets for the third straight year. Another 33% of Americans expressed “not very much” confidence.

“The news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process,” Gallup senior editor Megan Brenan wrote in a summary of the findings.

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