Monday, September 14, 2009
The Media - "Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low"
The "public" has this exactly right.
Media outlets are biased and sloppy; and they are paying the price for that.
Their readership, viewership, and advertising are all decreasing...
Media outlets are biased and sloppy; and they are paying the price for that.
Their readership, viewership, and advertising are all decreasing...
This is from the Pew Research Center website:
"The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate."
