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Scientific Poll: Only 29% Of Americans Trust Mainstream
Media
Record numbers say they distrust a media dominated by
corporate interests
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A new
poll by the Pew Research Center has reveled that
almost two thirds of Americans do not trust the mainstream media
to deliver the truth, marking a 20+ year low.
63%, the vast majority of the over 1500 respondents
to the survey, stated that the news media is dominated by special
interests, rendering it biased and inaccurate.
When Pew first asked the question in 1985, the
figure was 34%.
Now in 2009, just 29% say they trust the media
to deliver straight facts.
The figures also represent a decline in trust
in the media by a further 10% from 2007 numbers.
Perhaps this trend has something to do with the
fact that all the major networks, essentially owned
by just five companies, have become little more
than government mouthpieces.
Take ABC for example, the network that completely
turned over its news coverage to the government
for an Obama healthcare special last June, and excluded any
dissenting opinions from airing.
The latest example of corporate media lies came
this weekend as up to two million Americans protesting
against unchecked federal government power was uniformly reported
in the mainstream as a few thousand "teabaggers".
It is not surprising that more
people trust "fake" news programs such
as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do the mainstream
media dinosaurs.
Neither is it a coincidence that newspaper sales and broadcasters'
audiences are rapidly declining as people turn to the alternative
media and the internet.
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