Think about the taglines US "news" organizations surround themselves with: The Most Trusted Name In News...The Ones To Turn To...On Your Side...
Guess what, increasingly, American feel the exact same way about the mainstream news media that we do here in the blogosphere.
More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.
And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.
More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.
While the shitty/non existent news reporting hurts us all, the fact that already half the country feels this way is good news. Perhaps one day a new news organization will rise up out of the ashes of our infotainment empires and start reporting the truth.
More than half -- 53 percent -- of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America".
Among those who get their news from newspapers and television, criticism of the news organizations was up to 20 percentage points lower than among Internet news audiences, who tend to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole, according to Pew.
The poll indicates an across the board fall in the public's opinion on the news media since 1985, when a similar survey was conducted by Times Mirror, Pew Research said.
It took a long time for the rest of the country to start to see the crimes of the Bush Administration.
It took a long time for public opinion to se that media is not neutral.
It is in fact, the problem.
I'll give the country two more years before actually stop watching the fluffy fluff presented as news.
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