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Sanity -> News Media Races Congress To The Bottom (9/14/2009 8:27:53 PM)
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Who says Americans are clueless?
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Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low
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. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.
Similarly, only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60% who say news organizations are politically biased. And the percentages saying that news organizations are independent of powerful people and organizations (20%) or are willing to admit their mistakes (21%) now also match all-time lows.
(Full report here).
I won't buy a local paper any more, I know they're a sell out. I've looked out for bias in every news source there is for a long time now, and the built in slant is obvious to a lot more people than just myself (see the poll results above). There's a lot of it out there, and much of it is far worse than mere bias, its complicity.
Today's "journalists" are cheerleaders for their pet causes, and they ignore anything that they feel may hurt their pet causes.
Flat out ignore it.
There is no investigative journalism any longer, it doesn't exist.
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